*Archive?* Seems a bit odd!
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 3:21 pm
I'm researching my husbands Danish family, and come across a marriage that seems a little odd to me. 
My husband's great grandfather died less than six months after the birth of his grandfather. His great grandmother marries again after a couple of years to a widower. Family legend says that she died in childbirth within a relatively short space of time. In trying to find her death I looked at the "new" husband. His (presumably) first wife was more than 40 years his senior - I've checked this out on a census and her burial records and it all ties up.
As far as I can tell, he was a farm labourer and the couple didn't seem to have owned any land. I can't see that the wife had a lot of money, or owned a farm as this would have been on the census. They only lived in the parish where his first wife died for a short period of time. I can only find them on the 1906 census. At that time there was a census every 5 years. They aren't on the 1901 census for that town and neither is he on the 1911 census with his new wife. He married again only two months after the death of his first wife, and there were no children living with them on the 1906 census (not that I would have expected this as she was almost old enough to be his granny
).
Oh and wife number two was 20 years his junior, so there was approx 60 years between wife numbers one and two.
Does anyone else have a strange match?
Susan
My husband's great grandfather died less than six months after the birth of his grandfather. His great grandmother marries again after a couple of years to a widower. Family legend says that she died in childbirth within a relatively short space of time. In trying to find her death I looked at the "new" husband. His (presumably) first wife was more than 40 years his senior - I've checked this out on a census and her burial records and it all ties up.
As far as I can tell, he was a farm labourer and the couple didn't seem to have owned any land. I can't see that the wife had a lot of money, or owned a farm as this would have been on the census. They only lived in the parish where his first wife died for a short period of time. I can only find them on the 1906 census. At that time there was a census every 5 years. They aren't on the 1901 census for that town and neither is he on the 1911 census with his new wife. He married again only two months after the death of his first wife, and there were no children living with them on the 1906 census (not that I would have expected this as she was almost old enough to be his granny
). Oh and wife number two was 20 years his junior, so there was approx 60 years between wife numbers one and two.
Does anyone else have a strange match?
Susan
They certainly are helpful with the odd impossible to read archives found in AO and DDD, etc.