Having possibly come across my first bigamist in OH's tree, I wondered if the way she behaved was typical?
Even before she and her new chap got hitched (about twenty years after they first got together - and yes, her husband was still alive!) she seems to have tried to hide her true identity - sometimes using another first name, giving a subtley different maiden name on her children's birth certs, and, when they did finally marry, changing her father's name completely.
Of course, I might be wrong and there's an innocent explanation for all this, but I can't think of one! It gives me the rather sad picture of a woman who left her husband and 2 oldest children, possibly taking the third (still a baby)with her, and spent the next forty years in fear of being found out.
Was this typical or did most people just carry on as normal?
Even before she and her new chap got hitched (about twenty years after they first got together - and yes, her husband was still alive!) she seems to have tried to hide her true identity - sometimes using another first name, giving a subtley different maiden name on her children's birth certs, and, when they did finally marry, changing her father's name completely.
Of course, I might be wrong and there's an innocent explanation for all this, but I can't think of one! It gives me the rather sad picture of a woman who left her husband and 2 oldest children, possibly taking the third (still a baby)with her, and spent the next forty years in fear of being found out.
Was this typical or did most people just carry on as normal?
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