George Skillings m Eleanor Hammond in 1853 (neither were living in their home parish) in Norfolk
Eleanor Skillings (widow) m Jesse Boyde at St Peter ad Vincula, Middlesex in 1860. He is a soldier and they appear to have gone abroad, so not on 1861 census.
George Skillings (bachelor) m Esther Rhodes (widow) in 1860 in Bradford
Eleanor's father was Thomas Hammond, cordwainer per her first marriage.
It is Thomas Touchett, shipwright on her second.
Eleanor had an illegitimate daughter, Laura Hammond, who signs herself as Laura Skillings on Eleanor's second marriage certificate.
I can't find a Laura Hammond or Skillings on the 1861 census, but there are a Laura and Armide Trutlett lodging in the Tottenham Court Road area, very close to where Laura was when respectably married ten years later.
Was Trutlett a mangling of Touchett? Was Eleanor trying to make her family look more respectable for her new husband, by introducing Armide (sic?) as a relative?
And was this the reason that Laura adopted the middle name of Bohemia?!!
I don't often say thank you to Ancestry, but this litle mystery has been on the back burner for thirteen years, and best of all, I've found a descendant of Laura to share it with!
Eleanor Skillings (widow) m Jesse Boyde at St Peter ad Vincula, Middlesex in 1860. He is a soldier and they appear to have gone abroad, so not on 1861 census.
George Skillings (bachelor) m Esther Rhodes (widow) in 1860 in Bradford
Eleanor's father was Thomas Hammond, cordwainer per her first marriage.
It is Thomas Touchett, shipwright on her second.
Eleanor had an illegitimate daughter, Laura Hammond, who signs herself as Laura Skillings on Eleanor's second marriage certificate.
I can't find a Laura Hammond or Skillings on the 1861 census, but there are a Laura and Armide Trutlett lodging in the Tottenham Court Road area, very close to where Laura was when respectably married ten years later.
Was Trutlett a mangling of Touchett? Was Eleanor trying to make her family look more respectable for her new husband, by introducing Armide (sic?) as a relative?
And was this the reason that Laura adopted the middle name of Bohemia?!!
I don't often say thank you to Ancestry, but this litle mystery has been on the back burner for thirteen years, and best of all, I've found a descendant of Laura to share it with!
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