Two matching wives?

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BK6 updated from this thread

You know how it seems quite common for a man to marry more than one wife with the same forename (hopefully not at the same time!). Well this chap I'm researching seems to have had two wives with exactly the same name! I am just trying to get my head round it in public, in case anyone can spot more info or any flaws in what I think I've found....

His name is Peregrine Hogg Purvis.....

1) I can't find a baptism. From his second marriage cert his father was John Purvis, a tailor. Probably b about 1805 at Bishopsgate London.

2) There is this marriage on the IGI:

PEREGRINE HOGG PURVIS Marriages:
Spouse: MARY GROUT
Marriage: 05 FEB 1832 Saint Luke Old Street, Finsbury, London, England
Messages: Extracted marriage record for locality listed in the record.

3) These two children:

Peregrine Grout Purvis bap 31st Oct 1834 St Mary Whitechapel
Mary Purvis bap 29th Jun 1836 St Mary Whitechapel

4) I can't find an 1841 census record

5) I can't find a burial for his wife Mary Grout/Purvis or for either of the children.

6) 24th Aug 1844 marriage of Peregrine Hogg Purvis, widower to (another) Mary Grout, spinster (father Wm Grout, harness maker), at St Mary Haggerston. Witnesses are Wm Grout (bride's father) and Jane Smith (bride's sister, who is married to my relative).

7) 1851 they are at Trafalgar Place East Haggerston, Shoreditch
Peregrine 45 b Middlesex Bishopsgate
Mary 43 b Buntingford, Herts
one child, this one:
Births Mar 1845
PURVIS Peregrine Shoreditch 2 374

8) 1861 they are at Highfield Row (?) Edmonton
Peregrine 55 b London City
Mary 53 b Buntingford

9) 1871 The Cedars, Winchmore Hill
Peregrine 65 b London City
Mary 63 b Herts
Peregrine 26 b Shoreditch

10) Deaths Sep 1880
Purvis Peregrine Hogg 74 Edmonton 3a 154

His will is proved soon after. The exors are his son, Peregrine, and his brother-in-law, George Smith, who is my relative. I'm fairly sure the Grouts will turn out to be my relatives too, just that I've not worked out quite how yet!

I really need to find the 1841 census to see if Mrs P the 1st was alive or dead at that point, to have any chance of working out who she was!