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thats also very possible...

In which case we need to fin both side by side on each census....

If however we cannot find the corresponding person (including transcription errors) you might have to face the facts he lied even more....

Bearing in mind you cannot find a death for his first wife, maybe he lied about his age thinking it would make it harder to find he's lied??

So this means,

He's moved City's stated he was a widow when it looks like he wasn't and he's lost years of his age...

That all fits a bigamist trying not to get caught?

yes i see where your coming from tracey. i'm used to lying in my family research, i'm sure none of them ever told the truth! lol. thanks for all your help, i've got to get back to work now, am just having my lunch but i will check back later incase anyone has any more ideas.

again thank for all your help.

I have a similar thing in my tree, only she's changed her name too....

She also did the age and widow status thing also....and changed Counties.

Make it more interesting tho....

If i were you i'd get Amelia's death cert, see what it says....

yes i might do, but if she was married to charles won't it simply say wife of charles gannaway, or do you think it might give other clues. perhaps also the birth certificates with checking point as fathers name, which i have one the marriage cert, i'll have a look when i get home.

thanks,
Leanne.

Well if her husband is missing it won't mention him at all....

As he remarried in 1885 and she still had the Gannaway name, you need to first find out if it is her.

If it is her, it'll explain why she never remarried and gained a new name. She was still married and didn't know where her hubby was to divorce him! ...and in a sideways way prove he was a bigamist?

She maybe was more aware of marriage laws and knew she couldn't remarry. But she'd have been alone at least 13 years by then?

Woman back then preferred to be married. Thats along time without a husband to provide for you.

i have just looked on the IGI website and it gives a date of death!!!!! but i don't know where they got it from. where does it say if a record is submitted or extracted please? i can't beleive i didn't look there before!

at the bottom of the page, where the source data is...it'll say either extracted from LDS records.... or this record was submitted by a member of....