Marriage look-up please - Brighton

[Hungry Pelican]

Hi Justin,

Yes, I think we are at the moment!

I would like to know though if Marianne and George's marriage registration states whether she is a spinster or a widow, because if she's a spinster, that would probably have made her William Lionel Pyne's mistress .

Julia Augusta Pyne's marriage to Edward Colebrooke Miller was at St. George's, Hanover Square, which is a protestant church.  I don't know about William Rowland Pyne's marriage to Louisa Hamblin, but it may have been in the Falkland Islands as that is where their first son was born in 1864.

Ros.

[JustinL]

Hello Ros,

I am fairly certain that I accurately transcribed the marriage registration and it did not state whether she was either a widow or spinster.

Tomorrow evening, I shall go to the archive and get a copy - just to double check.

I have considered the possibility that Eliza was someone's mistress. But having five children out of wedlock was surely a bit extreme.

I'll keep you posted.

Justin