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I also have plenty of examples in my family. I think, for all the reasons given above, nearly everyone accepted such marriages .

Do bear in mind that the address given will be where she died and therefore not her home address if she died in hospital. The address of the...

As did my 2x great grandfather in 1853 then in 1873. The younger sister was also widowed with a step-daughter from her first marriage. He had already...

I have several 19th century examples of men marrying a younger sister-in-law. Widowers with young children to be cared for, a younger sister of the...

I have told this story before, so I'll be brief, lol. My friend found out after her father died that he had married twin sisters and that the woman...

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It was 1921 - the "Deceased Brother's Widow's Marriage Act", although the opposite , marrying your dead wife's sister, had been OK since 1907 under...

An Act to amend the Law relating to Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister. https://tinyurl.com/y9vezpag An Act to amend the Law relating to...

There doesn’t seem to be any way of editing posts on here but I wanted to add that I may in the end decide to send for the death certificates in case...

Thank you for all the time you seem to have spent trying to identify my Mrs Tancock. Elaine's link to the Rhondda valley/US army story involves a...

Just noticed my Freudian slip - marring rather than marrying the same man! Marriage to sister no1 was in Buenos Aires, registered as a British...

1921 marriage act, I think. I know it was after the end of WW1. The brother/sister had to be widowed, divorced not a permissible match. Jay Jay

Just out if interest Jay, when did it become legal in England? I have just found two sisters marring the same man in 1920 and 1927! Christine

By that date it was legal to marry the widow of your dead brother. Jay

Gramps works well on linux so I have been told. I see it was designed for use with Linux: https://gramps-project.org/introduction-WP/download/...

The probate address of 81 Wilson Ave. for Mabel is the same as the 1939 reg. where she can be found with John and Owen.

I use FTM 2017 fairly frequently on a PC running Windows 10. I mainly create PDF files to reference when using my Chromebook away from my main PC....

This relates to the Army and is different to the Royal Navy in respect of the actual war years of 1940/1 to 1945. I do not know how the army wrote up...

Hi Katarzyna … thanks for looking. I recently solved this one - the child listed as John (mmn Palmer) was registered in Q2 1851 as George Walter, he...

Hi, I know it's a long shot but working on the basis that new records / updates appearing regularly … maybe he was, as you say, missed when census...