This may sound like a daft question but when a man of 37 says he was a bachelor on his marriage cert - could you assume he had never previously been married?
I've got one bachelor who was actually married, one who was actually a divorcee and one who pretended to be his own father in order to try and hide his married status (and he was the brother of the first man I mentioned!!)
Well one of mine was younger than that and married twice as a bachelor - second time round he was a widower.
His bride must have known the truth, because they brought up the young son from the first marriage!
Jay
JanetinYorkshire
Genealogists never die - they just swap places in the family tree
This may sound like a daft question but when a man of 37 says he was a bachelor on his marriage cert - could you assume he had never previously been married?
JANE
mmmmm what year are you talking about and how old was the bride?
My great grandfather married his wife when he was 39 and she was about 19 (my great grandmother who had 9 children with him) stating he was a bachelor. I've never proved otherwise yet but I have my doubts. He never reckoned on 'Family History' fanatics!
I so believe he had something somewhere else...
I have traced all his 'family' back however I haven't found a clue I'm still not convinced call me a sceptic if you like and I'm probably doing old Francis Worley a bad turn but having heard what my Nanny said about him I think I'm not wrong...
I think you have to weigh up all the facts really.
My big fact is Francis Worley turned up with not a stitch or money or any item of family, mother, father or anything else that he could account for and my grandmother died not knowing where the hell he came from and no one ever challenged or asked him cos they daren't. He was an enigma. He's not anymore but there's still a lot to learn about him he can't hide from 'us'.
Oooh, I was thrown off the track for years by my man calling himself a bachelor at his second marriage (He married 3 times).
It was only when I finally got the MIs that I realised it was the same man, three marriages. What's more, he married in the same church each time, so the Vicar KNEW he wasn't a bachelor the second time!
My OH's cousin married a batchelor who was 60 and she was a spinster of 45. A happier couple I've yet to meet. This was in 1981. Sadly they are both dead now.
Daphne
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