Can't get my head round these circumstances:D
Haydon Thomas Aldersey marries Elizabeth Susanna Mason on 26.10.1850.
Just a few months later, on 1851 census, he is living with his parents and apparently single ........... hmmmm!
He remains "single" on all further censuses (can't find him in 1881)
Elizabeth (almost) disappears off the face of the earth. Can't find her in 1851 or 1861, she reappears as a visitor in Winchester in 1871, disappears again until 1901, when she is back in Winchester, where she dies in 1909. Nowhere near Haydon on these censuses.
In 1871 she is "married" and in 1901, she is a "widow" (Haydon Thomas died in 1893)
Can anyone think up what was going on here? I'm guessing it wasn't the happiest marriage in the world - but even so! (There appear to be no children)
Did Haydon Thomas not tell his parents he was married?
If the marriage fell apart so fast that it wasn't consummated, why did Elizabeth remain "married"
Surely they couldn't have got divorced between Oct 1850 and March 1851?
Might be worth mentioning that I have Haydon Thomas down as a philanderer, having got my 3 x ggmother in the family way in 1849! (And refusing to take responsibility!)
Haydon Thomas Aldersey marries Elizabeth Susanna Mason on 26.10.1850.
Just a few months later, on 1851 census, he is living with his parents and apparently single ........... hmmmm!
He remains "single" on all further censuses (can't find him in 1881)
Elizabeth (almost) disappears off the face of the earth. Can't find her in 1851 or 1861, she reappears as a visitor in Winchester in 1871, disappears again until 1901, when she is back in Winchester, where she dies in 1909. Nowhere near Haydon on these censuses.
In 1871 she is "married" and in 1901, she is a "widow" (Haydon Thomas died in 1893)
Can anyone think up what was going on here? I'm guessing it wasn't the happiest marriage in the world - but even so! (There appear to be no children)
Did Haydon Thomas not tell his parents he was married?
If the marriage fell apart so fast that it wasn't consummated, why did Elizabeth remain "married"
Surely they couldn't have got divorced between Oct 1850 and March 1851?
Might be worth mentioning that I have Haydon Thomas down as a philanderer, having got my 3 x ggmother in the family way in 1849! (And refusing to take responsibility!)
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