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see we were right vera :-)

Excellent finds MC.



Regards Vera

it was really starting to do my head in lol

You're welcome James!

Thank you so much

Here's her probate:

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
Name: Margaret Maria Bygate
Probate Date: 13 Sep 1859
Death Date: 9 Apr 1857
Death Place: Yorkshire, England
Registry: Wakefield

Letters of administration given to her husband Edwin Bygate. (Probably not the best person given his later bankruptcy!) Effects under £200

Sadly, she died:

Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 18 April 1857
DEATHS

On 10th inst., aged 25, Margaret Maria, wife of Mr Edwin Bygate, Churchfield House, Barnsley and eldest daughter of the late Rev RL Armstrong of Wortley, near Leeds.

So when Edwin married her sister he should have stated widower but the record definitely says bachelor. Didn't waste much time, did he?

thanx marie

i had a feeling that this may have happened

ill carry on digging aswell

Have found something!

Manchester Times - Saturday 30 August 1856
"Marriages"

BYGATE - ARMSTRONG. On the 23rd inst, at Marshall Street Chapel, Holbeck by the Rev J H Morgan, Mr Edwin Bygate of Churchfield House, Barnsley, to Margaret Maria, eldest daughter of the late Rev R L Armstrong of Moor Cottage, Wortley.

So what on earth happened? Annulment, as I suggested earlier?

Will keep digging.

this is what i have

Name: Margaret Maria Armstrong
Date of Registration:
Jul-Aug-Sep 1856
Registration district:
Hunslet
Inferred County:
Yorkshire West Riding
Volume Number:
9b
Page Number
287 (click to see others on page

when i searched on ancestry for margaret it has all the info month year place but no name i think ur right and buying the cert is the only way to find out for sure

James, there's nothing in the West Yorkshire records for a marriage so your only option is to buy that certificate. I only posted the 1857 record to show their status (as I mentioned).

Just trawling through various records to see if I can find a mention .....

Is this connected?

Sheffield Independent - Saturday 7 July 1883.

SHEFFIELD BANKRUPTCY COURT
Re: Edwin Bygate - Mr J Binney applied on behalf of the trustees in liquidation of Edwin Bygate, schoolmaster of Brampton Commercial College, near Rotherham for a continnation of the liquidation, the debtor having recently died. His Honour granted the order.

thanx for that marie

i actually want margaret m armstrong b1832 marriage i know she was married in sept 1856 in yorkshire but there is no name of who she married if you could find that i would be really grateful

Wonder if that 1856 marriage was annulled .......... ?

I know it's not finding what happened to her, but is this her baptism?

West Yorkshire, Non-Conformist Records, 1646-1985
Name: Margaret Maria Armstrong
Birth Date: 12 Jul 1831
Event Type: Baptism
Father: Robert Leslie Armstrong
Mother: Maria Armstrong
Baptism Date: 11 Sep 1831
Archive Location: Leeds
Reel Number: LNC13

They were from Wortley. Baptism by the Reverend Henry Bean of Heckmondwike.

Here's the 1857 marriage just to clarify their status:

West Yorkshire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935
Name: Edwin Bygate, bachelor. Schoolmaster from Barnsley
Birth Year: abt 1832
Age: 25
Marriage or Bann Date: 24 Dec 1857
Parish: Leeds, St Peter
Father's Name: John Bygate - Cordwainer
Spouse's Name: Hannah Matilda Armstrong, age 25 - spinster from Wortley
Spouse's Father's Name: Robert Leslie Armstrong - dissenting minister

Witnesses: Thomas Riley and Edwin Moore

im very confused lol...

Very confusing...I think the death you found is for Edwin and Hannah's daughter
Regards Vera