hello, i have a slight problem with my cousin's tree, i'd like some pointers?
ok, i have palmerston brown (b.1885) married in 1906, melbourne, victoria to ethel maud bray. he divorced her in 1908, from newspaper clippings on the trove site. she was obviously pregnant by another man 2 mths after marriage, and she admitted to sleeping with a jockey prior to marriage.
in 1911, he married my cousin's grandmother, and on the cert it stated the divorce date. now also in 1911, his wife sued him for not looking after her! she was 17, and this comes from trove as well. the next information i have of the wife is the marriage to my cousin's grandfather, where she states she is a spinster in 1918?
how could she claim she was a spinster at her second marriage? would she have divorced palmerston? i couldn't find any divorce proceedings on the public records site.
i also couldn't find any evidence of his death? is it possible palmerston believed he was divorced, but technically wasn't, making his second marriage bigamous? therefore allowing my cousins grandparents to get married?
ok, i have palmerston brown (b.1885) married in 1906, melbourne, victoria to ethel maud bray. he divorced her in 1908, from newspaper clippings on the trove site. she was obviously pregnant by another man 2 mths after marriage, and she admitted to sleeping with a jockey prior to marriage.
in 1911, he married my cousin's grandmother, and on the cert it stated the divorce date. now also in 1911, his wife sued him for not looking after her! she was 17, and this comes from trove as well. the next information i have of the wife is the marriage to my cousin's grandfather, where she states she is a spinster in 1918?
how could she claim she was a spinster at her second marriage? would she have divorced palmerston? i couldn't find any divorce proceedings on the public records site.
i also couldn't find any evidence of his death? is it possible palmerston believed he was divorced, but technically wasn't, making his second marriage bigamous? therefore allowing my cousins grandparents to get married?
Comment