got a strnage one here - this is what i have -
Grandad marriage 1
Marriage: 29 Mar 1796 St Mary the Virgin, Leigh, Lancashire, England William Coward - (X), Husbandman, Leigh Parish Betty Lythgoe - (X), Spinster, Leigh Parish Witness
Grandad marriage 2
Marriage: 20 Dec 1824 St Mary the Virgin, Deane, Lancashire, England William Coward - Widower, this Parish [Deane] Mary Taylor - (X), Widow,
hes listed as both weaver and husbandman but 1841 census has him living in Kay street with Mary Taylor wife and his birth place as Leigh -
1851, 1861 hes in Bolton as a weaver still working - he lives until 97 (BMD)
COWARD William 97 Western Bolton Bolton WB/36/61 1867 bolton BMD
not may Cowards around there at that time but a couple which were not related - however i COULDNT find burial of first wife at all Betty -
However ive just found this -
Burial: 16 Oct 1831 Ebenezer Chapel Methodist New Connexion, Bolton, Lancashire, England
Betty Coward -
Age: 45
Abode: Kay Street
Buried by: Mr Berry
and guess what - KAY street is where they were in 1841 (william and New wife ) BUT HE MARRIED HIS NEW WIFE IN 1824
so have i gone wrong or was he up to something ?
Ive double checked the census but only have accesss when im at the library - the families where moving from Leigh into Bolton as my gr grandad moved too but several of them were using the same name william any help much appreciated - i do know my dad used to say he had a gr grandad who lived to 100 as well but it just got passed down as a family story he never met him
