Hope this gets to you. I can't find the link to your 2007 query. However this is the story of John Pellatt and Esther as I have found out so far - Philip Hope Pellatt.
John Hope Pellatt (1806 – 1865), on 18 Apr 1829 he married Emma Keyte (1808-1838) at St Georges Church, Cannon Street Road, London. John and Emma had three children; Fortunatus (1830), Esther (1832), Emma (1834).
John’s occupations as shown variously on census, baptism and birth records were -
1832 Tea Dealer
1834 Grocer
1837 Grocer
1840 Shipbroker
1851 Merchant's clerk
1861 Ship broker
Emma died Sept/Dec 1838 at Coventry Warwickshire. There has been no evidence of a divorce found; however on 11 May 1836 John married Emma’s sister Esther Jones Keyte (1806 – 1879) in a civil ceremony at Gretna Hall, Dumfries, Scotland.
This civil ceremony was because as he had first married Esther’s sister (and perhaps divorced) he had to be married outside of Anglican Church under the marriage laws of that time.
In her 1838 will, Esther’s mother in bequeathing some items to Esther, referred to her as Mrs Pellatt. She obviously saw this as a legal marriage.
Esther and John received a dispensation from the Church and married (religiously) on 20 March 1840 at St Michael Bassishaw Church, London.
John and Esther had four children: Edwin (1837-1838); Matilda Emily (1838); Alfred (1840-1908) and Marianne (1842).
John died on 26 Feb 1865 at 4 St Anne’s Road, Brixton, and was buried on 4 March 1865 at Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove, Southwark, London. Nunhead Cemetery is one of the “Magnificent Seven” cemeteries in London, opened in 1840. Because of the unceasing growth of London’s population its church graveyards were overcrowded. Not only did this make burials increasingly undignified affairs but many people believed some sort of noxious vapour or ‘miasma’ rose into the air from the decomposed corpses, spreading diseases.
John is my Great Great Grandfather, and Alfred is my Great Grandfather. He came to Australia in 1866
