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She was almost certainly not married to her "husband". She became fiercely respectable, perhaps to compensate for her own guilt. It was common enough.
I've come across the same thing. The relation in question was very straight-laced and moral. It was only because she was ranting about a young unmarried couple having a baby (in the 1960s when it still wasn't the done thing) when an even older relation muttered "She's a fine one to talk!" that it came to light.
Monica
We've found this one too - there's nothing like the zealousness of a "convert", although in this case the individual concerned was married but she herself had been illegitimate. One of her sons couldn't stop laughing about it.
They had 8 children 7 of whom are still alive and although we've not shouted the lack of a marriage from the roof tops our research has got back to some of them and 2 in particular are very very upset about whta we've discovered.
......... Just to add, my father found the news all rather amusing.
But it's a shame if other family members can't take the facts for what they were. Times were different then, and we cannot judge from here and now what the pressures and constraints were back then.
JULIAN
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