Marrying twice to the same person

[kiterunner]

William Stephen Montgomery Smith married Margaret Ellen Deborah Dixon in Jul-Sep quarter of 1890 in Southwark (I haven't got a copy of the marriage certificate, but it is on the GRO index) but then they married each other again at St George's Anglican Church, Montreal, Quebec, on the 8th Oct 1891. I guess the first marriage was a register office one as it isn't in the church records on ancestry, but I'm not sure why the second one. They were both about 27 or 28, and he was a doctor.

[Janet in Yorkshire]

Originally Posted by Phoenix

And I bet he only gave permission because she was so far gone. Who would want their child married to someone nearly three times their age?

I have a couple in my tree who married in Q1 1911.
The groom was born in 1829 and the bride in 1880. Their first daughter was born in 1912 and the second in 1915.
The 11 children from the groom's first marriage were born between 1857 and 1873.

Jay

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Janet in Yorkshire

I have a couple in my tree who married in Q1 1911.
The groom was born in 1829 and the bride in 1880. Their first daughter was born in 1912 and the second in 1915.
The 11 children from the groom's first marriage were born between 1857 and 1873.

Jay

I have a 43 year gap between the children, but that takes the biscuit, Jay. I would add that my ancestor's widow married VERY promptly after his death, making me suspect that there is no fool like an old fool.

[Kit]

I'm sure I have people who married twice but am talking about a very recent marriage - in the last 30 years.

My neighbour's son married got married on a Saturday and then married again the next Saturday. One of them was Greek, I can't remember the other religion. Both wanted to be married in their own church so they did.

Other neighbours had to laugh though as the wife would not live with her husband until after the second marriage to make sure they were really married.