Author Topic: CHARLES AWRE WOOD,1848-1924,Baptised twice!  (Read 2032 times)

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Re: CHARLES AWRE WOOD,1848-1924,Baptised twice!
« Reply #18 on: Friday 19 October 18 00:32 BST (UK) »
This is just an aside re a Victorian widower marrying his sister-in-law. It concerns the mother of Rev. Dr. Benjamin Nightingale of Lancashire. This is from his autobiography. "My mother survived my father …..  and late in life, married my father's brother, James, whose previous wife was Nancy Brindle, my mother's sister."  ("The Story of My Life", a series of 3 autobiographical articles printed in "The Blackburn Times"; reproduced in  "Notable Names of Blackburn & Darwen" section of "Cottontown" website)
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Just as well the marriage happened "late in life"; if the 2nd marriage had produced children their family tree would have been even more complex.  ???
 Rev. Nightingale stated that one of his grandmothers had 22 children; a large proportion of village inhabitants may have been his aunts and uncles.
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