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15-09-23, 07:53
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Hmmm. I'm not sure it would be all that difficult for Hugh to obtain her first marriage certificate. Twenty years ago, I was able to at least discount various certificates merely by engaging the interest of the registrar, haha. A hundred years earlier, I bet it would have been even easier, if he presented himself as a possible victim of bigamy.
Having said that, I think it's just as likely that the registrar found a certificate that looked right, but wasn't! I think the court didn't take it seriously - if they did, then Emily would have been charged with bigamy. OC 
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15-09-23, 09:38
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I've been through all the Emilys born Surrey per Ancestry in 1891. Unfortunately, Sussex can look like Surrey and I need a break before going through the Sussex ones.
If you were out of area and truthful, you might well say you were born in Guildford or possibly Leatherhead. Checking those, and the ones that just said Surrey, none cross referenced to marriages on FreeBMD. One woman who gave West Horsley as a birthplace appears to have grown up in Stoke, which is the other side of Guildford. The trouble is, if you are a servant or a lodger, nobody is really interested in the accuracy of the information.
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15-09-23, 09:59
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Thanks, Phoenix.
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15-09-23, 10:10
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Emily didn't marry in Chichester, Willesdon, Lambeth or Edmonton, unless she was lying like mad. Either the fathers' names are wrong and Robinson witnesses are not immediate family, and/or the wife is on the next census with a family.
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15-09-23, 16:35
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Thanks. I've gone through the Emily Robinson (with no middle name) marriages in 1889 on FreeBMD and the only one I haven't managed to rule out is to George Fox in Glanford Brigg district but I should think that one is unlikely being so far away.
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15-09-23, 19:46
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So either Hugh was telling porkies or the year printed in the paper was wrong?
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15-09-23, 21:46
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I suppose so.
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