John and Adeline Billington

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This couple were actors.

It's rather convoluted, but my great-great-aunt Fanny Eddy Quintrell married Dr Charles Knott. They met through their association with Portsea Island Workhouse, where Fanny's father was Master.

Charles Knott had been previously married, to a lady considerably older than him. Her maiden name was Eliza Jane Harding. Her first husband was George Robinson Bromley, whom she married at Strood, Kent in 1844.

In 1881 Eliza is absent from the marital home and can be found with John and Adeline Billington in London.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...0?pId=13985785

Her relationship is given as sister-in-law.

I'm struggling to find the connection.

John was born at Goole, Yorkshire and Adeline at Southsea.
Newspaper articles give her maiden name as Mortimer, but I haven't found a marriage. The only marriage I found was in 1876 for a woman with the surname Carn.