I've got someone who married in the mid nineteenth century & she's described as a widow. I can't find her previous husband's death. I don't know his first name or exactly where they'd been living....she was born in Portsea, her only surviving child from the marriage was born in Aldgate & she's on the 1841 census in Gillingham. Her second marriage was in Whitechapel & she & her new husband lived in the East End. Both her husbands & she herself were Jewish (second marriage a Jewish ceremony...can't find the first):(
Quite a lot of Jews were emigrating to the US at this time & many left their wives behind, intending that they should follow them, but, for various reasons, they never did. If her husband had just left her behind & a sufficient period of time had elapsed to allow her to remarry, would she still have ben described as a widow on the marriage certificate or was a different wording used & widow only reserved for women where it was certain that their husbands had died ?
Thanks
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