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Offline Yonks Ago

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Re: Widower: how long to remarry?
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 21 October 18 09:40 BST (UK) »
There was no welfare for help back then...many remarried quite quick..some one had to care for the children
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Re: Widower: how long to remarry?
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 21 October 18 15:45 BST (UK) »
I have a husbands death 26/02/1919 and his widow remarrying 08/06/1919, he had left 3 children

I thought it surprisingly quick

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It may have been change in attitudes to mourning resulting from the war.
My knowledge of remarriage at that time is limited to radio drama serial "Home Front" which is meticulously researched. All 3 of the young women characters who were widowed during the war and left with small children married within a year. A combination of economic necessity, finding a good step-father, snapping up an eligible man from a depleted supply and not wasting time when so many lives had been cut short were all factors in those fictional cases. 
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