Well,Well!! I caught a bigamist in my tree!

[AussieGenealogy]

 
I've been having a good old chuckle here - we all hope that we find something in our trees well I have 2 things to "brag" about now!

1st theres my mad and I do say mad paternal Gr Grandfather that fried himself out in our desert here in Australia, and now I find that my other maternal grandfather was a bigamist!
Yes I have the proof! 2 marriage certificates - one in Newcastle at a parish and the other in a registry office in Middlesex.
I believe there were 2 children to this union. I wonder if they knew or found out when he died?

Still smiling broadly!
I love a rebel!

[Half Pint]

Hi

Lucky you, all I seem to find is inbreeding.

Regards

Half Pint

[kerryb]

Annie

Well done on something exciting, all I get is illegitimacy and Ag Labs!!!

Kerry   

[jinks]

My Great Grandfather was reported to have two
families on the go at the same time but
I found the death of his first wife before any
children where born to the second union (I havent
found the marriage yet.)

BUT when I told the occupation of my Great
Grandfather to a friend and fellow genealogist a
comment he made in passing was dont be
surprised if you find family up and down the
country!

So you never know.

Jinks

PS in case your wondering my Great Grandfather
was a Stud Groom.

[wheeldon]

Ag labs - more ag labs and yet more ag labs.  This is all I ever find.  I'm sure that some of them were interesting and windswept.  Oh well they are all interesting to me 

[wheeldon]

Ag labs - more ag labs and yet more ag labs.  This is all I ever find.  I'm sure that some of them were interesting and windswept.  Oh well they are all interesting to me  

[wamwig]

Hi Annie

Well I found one as well, one of my gt gt grandfathers, or at least the combined detective work of several rootschatters and a couple of certificates found him. Mind you it seems he had an interesting life all round!

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,129444.0.html

Anthony

[AussieGenealogy]

Mine has used the same name for himself and his occupation is the same but he has used the term bachelor describing himself and on  the 2nd marriage his father has become  a surgeon and on the first hes a managing director of a cereal company! geez my gr.grand dad was a clever man then ! LOL.

[MarieC]

Good on you, AnnieCJ!!! 

It's great to have people like that to brag about.  I am on the trail of my ggggrandfather who I suspect of being a bigamist - he had two households on the go at once, and was married to at least one of the women - but I can't find a marriage to my ancestor!   Looked at more parish records today, that I had high hopes for, but no marriage there.  Mind you, there seemed to be a couple of years missing out of the PRs, and if they married in one of those years I will probably never find the marriage!!   

I hear ghostly laughter echoing down the years.  Ha ha, I've put a stop to your investigations - you aren't going to pin this on me!

He was a merchant in Hull with my ggggrandmother, and the other household seems to have been in Norton, Durham.  Don't know how he divided himself between the two!!!   

MarieC