« Reply #3 on: Saturday 18 November 17 18:53 GMT (UK) »
A butcher often had a farm to rear his own and to buy in sufficient numbers of cattle for his business and many businesses usually expanded when sons became old enough. I can see two scenarios for how they met. The junior butcher was sent further afield on business. As mentioned above there is a connection between Dorset cattle and Sydenham, Kent, which meant the area became prosperous, thus drawing in people who needed feeding:- (Genuki) "The formation of Sydenham Park, and the removal hither of the Crystal Palace, from Hyde Park, in October, 1851, upon the close of the great International Exhibition, tended much to the improvement of the neighbourhood."
Alternatively, the bride could have moved to Dorset for a better paid position. My gt. grandmother born about the same time moved from one county to Derbyshire where I found her as a young servant, then in the next census she had moved to the north east to look after the children of a doctor, which is where she met my gt.grandfather.
A third option is; she fleetingly met a handsome young man, they corresponded and eventually married. Hmm, where have I heard that before? Oh - it was meeee
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