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Old 13-07-19, 15:53
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People remarried quickly for a variety of reasons. Emotional - to avoid loneliness and to have companionship and support. Widowed fathers needed someone to look after their children (and themselves!). Widows would need financial support and perhaps wished to avoid unwanted attentions from other men. Marriage conveyed respectability.

I have been unable to find the second marriage of my great-grandmother, Emma. Her husband (gt grandfather) dropped dead on their 14th wedding anniversary in 1879. She appears in 1881 with second husband and has their baby later that year. I often wonder if he was a lodger she took in to help with the family finances.
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Chowns in Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire
Brewer, Broad, Eplett & Pope in Cornwall
Smoothy & Willsher/Wiltshire in Essex & Surrey
Emms, Mealing + variants, Purvey & Williams in Gloucestershire
Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham, Saul/Seals/Sales in Norfolk
Matthews & Nash in Warwickshire
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