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.

It is a strange story. Maybe it was just that she didn't want to leave the children?

Did you ever get the last child's birth certificate, out of curiosity?

No I didn't. I'll look at that again. There was a reason at the time.....

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.

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.

I doubt Henry would have been married to his first wife for long as there were no living children. Could have been a few who died I suppose. I'll check that one out. Thanks.

I expect so, to keep things respectable. I just wondered if Agatha was the informant, and what address she gave.

I'm not saying that isn't the right Henry as he could have married more than twice, but in 1841 there's a 15 year-old William Farr, articled clerk, living with him and Elizabeth, who I expect is his son.

No, that can't be right, because Henry isn't old enough to be his father! (sensibly...)

*Thanks again*

The Bristol Mercury 25th Jan 1840:

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...