A Long Way.

[DianaCanada]

This probably won’t count... ...my parents: dad from Valleyfield, Quebec married my mother in Telscombe, Sussex during WW2, 3300 miles from home.  He made quite a trip from his bp of Burnley, Lancs. to Canada and back to England as a Canadian soldier to find his bride! 

[coombs]

My ancestor John Wallaker was born in 1842 in remote Foulness in Essex. His future wife was born 100 miles away in Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire. They had met by 1865 and married in London in February 1866. All those years apart then they wed. Although further back I have found someone from Warrington who wed a Lincolnshire girl in my direct line.

[Erato]

"His future wife was born 100 miles away"

One hundred miles!!  He could have walked 100 miles in four days. Sorry, but that seems just laughable to an American.  People walked to California, for goodness sake.

[coombs]

"His future wife was born 100 miles away"

One hundred miles!!  He could have walked 100 miles in four days. Sorry, but that seems just laughable to an American.  People walked to California, for goodness sake.

Why have you got such an attitude?

[jimnix]

My x2 great grandfather had been born in North Wales, his wife had been born in Barnsley which is where they met and married.

On another side, an ancestor had been born in Barnsley and his wife had arrived from Askham in Westmorland.

I always wonder they purposefully set out for a place or just simply drifted their way there until they found somewhere to settle.

[BenRalph]

My x3 great grandparents were both from Leiston in Suffolk and both went to Germany on the same boat in 1865. They married in Germany and had about a dozen children. About half of the children moved to Yorkshire in their 20s and my x3 great grandma followed a while later. All the men, including my x3 great granddad, married local women. How far is Germany from Yorkshire?

[Top-of-the-hill]

  Depends which bit of Germany.

[jimnix]

"His future wife was born 100 miles away"

One hundred miles!!  He could have walked 100 miles in four days. Sorry, but that seems just laughable to an American.  People walked to California, for goodness sake.

Yes but isn’t the UK only about 300 miles at its widest point? Considering most American states are bigger than Britain as a whole, I don’t really see how that’s “laughable”? They were only answering the question 

[Nanna52]

My great grandfather, born in Illogan, Cornwall met and married my great grandmother from Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia.
His older brother travelled to New Zealand and met a young lady coming off a later boat having travelled from Yorkshire to New Zealand.
Another set of great grandparents, she was from Kent, UK and he was from Canada.  They met and married in South Australia.