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Agatha's divorce and the Welsh Farr connection....
I am wondering (always dangerous) about Agatha's life around the time of her divorce.
I still cannot get my head around the whole adultery thing. As she would have had some access to money and her "supposed lover" also had some, they could have left together if they wanted to. He later took his own life but not until the 1860s (from memory). In the report of the divorce, it was said that Agatha was staying with her sister, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Naylor Ariel married solicitor Henry Farr). They lived in Wales. There was also a report of a servant going with Agatha to London....??? Although I need to read that again to make sure I'm not imagining things. I wonder if Francois was some how connected to the Farrs. Henry was a widower at his marriage to Elizabeth Ariel in 1840. I have no idea who his first wife was. I don't have their marriage cert as it wasn't important to me. Henry says he was born in 1811 in Bristol. His father is given as Thomas Farr.
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It is a strange story. Maybe it was just that she didn't want to leave the children?
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No I didn't. I'll look at that again. There was a reason at the time.....
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January 23rd, at Newport, of consumption, aged 23, Margaret Ann, the beloved wife of Henry Farr, solicitor. I just saw the marriage notice before I saw this, so will type that out....one moment...
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Shall I shift the Farr posts to a different thread?
The Bristol Mercury 15th July 1837: July 10 at Thornbury, Mr Henry Farr to Margaret Anne, eldest daughter of the late Captain Shearman, 26th foot.
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It would seem Henry Farr had more than one child with Margaret Ann Shearman as:
The Bristol Mercury 13th June 1840 June 5, at Newport, aged 18 months, Margaret Elizabeth, eldest child of Mr Henry Farr, solicitor.
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Ah, the other child was Sarah Frances who is on the 1841 census and was registered the same Q Margaret Ann Farr died.
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Her christening is on Ancestry.
Julia Clark, dob 11 Feb 1846 Christening 14 April 1846 I really think Edward is going to be the father in the birth cert.
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I expect so, to keep things respectable. I just wondered if Agatha was the informant, and what address she gave.
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There's a possible marriage at St. James, Bristol in 1837 for Henry Farr to Maria Ann Hunt.
No death in Bristol under that name before the marriage to Elizabeth, although there is a death of a Mary Farr in Gloucs in early 1840. |
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