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In 1851 John is unmarried and living with his parents:

1851 John Drury
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If he married between 1851 and 1861 ten this looks most likely, but nothing like Sa(u)nders!


Marriages Jun 1853

Drury John Chipping N 3a 805
Edwards Hannah Chipping N 3a 805

I don't have time to look for Hannah now.
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There's a possible, but she's in Oxfordshire:

1861 Hannah Drury

At least it should be possible to work out if this is the woman from the marriage or not. Have to go out now.
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Thanks Merry, I tried google to see where it was and got nowhere, local knowledge helps out!
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Old 18-09-13, 08:23
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OOoo that is the wife, I have found the divorce of Hannah Drury and John in 1859 and she was a widow when she married John Drury.
Hannah Sanders married William Edwards Thame June 1841!
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Oh well done!!

I don't have any local knowledge - I just searched for Campden in 1861!!

Do you need anything else on this?
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Great work! So it looks as if Hannah's son was illegitimate.
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I have found the divorce of Hannah Drury and John in 1859
Interesting that they both said they were married in 1861!
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She continued to say she was married and probate in 1892 says she was wife of John Drury, although in 1891 she does says she was widowed!

I am pretty sure I have the correct probate as it was granted to Drusilla Stone spinster, who in 1851 is living next door to Ann Sanders b the same place as Hannah and about the right age to be a sister!

The letter says she has some property which she wants to leave to her son, but he is not mentioned at probate. I wonder if he ever wrote back.

We lost his adoptive mother after 1851, but his aunt says she has a letter from her a few days ago in 1859, so she was still alive then!
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Interesting that they both said they were married in 1861!
The divorce papers go into the 1860s - her petition for separation was granted on 18 November 1862.

The following info is from the divorce papers.

Hannah Edwards, widow, married farmer John Drury on 23 June 1853 in Great Rollright, Oxfordshire.

They lived in Great Rollright and then Westington and had no issue from the marriage.

She accused him of committing adultery with Mary Waine, now Garden, wife of William Garden, and with Mary Anne Ingram.

John Drury denied that he committed adultery and accused her of absenting herself without his permission and went to to keep house for Mr Phillips at Over Porton when his wife was at another farm.

John Drury was ill in January 1959 and, instead of staying and performing her duties, Hannah went to visit Mr Phillips. Therefore John Drury had to engage a housekeeper. When Hannah returned, he threw her out. She then incurred bills in Oxford, which he doesn't seem to have paid, as she sued him for them.

John claimed that she also threatened his life and he once escaped through a window and went to stay with his brother.

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