Hi Kristine The issue is probably more to do with church law at the time. Maybe asking your local C of E minister might solve this. Grahame on 24/2/03 10:27 AM, Kristine Wood at kristine.wood@mailbox.gu.edu.au wrote: > Hi Listers, > I wonder if anyone can help me. I have an ancestor who may have married > their widowed stepmother in the 1860s. There is no record of the marriage > taking place and I wanted to know if it was lawful at the time. They also > moved out of the area to a place where they were not known. I know that > widowed men could marry their wife's sister but widowed women could not > marry their husband's brother and I thought this case could also be one of > those laws. > > Kristine Wood > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >