« Reply #21 on: Tuesday 30 April 24 18:30 BST (UK) »
As we know lots of women were pregnant when they married, but in time DNA testing will reveal the percentage of those who married another man while pregnant, maybe they were seeing 2 blokes at the same time or the blood father fled or died or married someone else, and the mother was married off to another man. However in my trees I have found lots of instances of couples being together long before they married, such as banns being read 2 or 3 years prior to marrying, or family postcards etc to one another, or both witnessing a wedding before they married each other, or had a child before marrying and the child was baptised as if the parents were married or with the future husband's middle name as a forename or if he was subject to a bastardy bond and they later married etc.
Researching:
LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain