A little while back Peter Oakley listed a link to the google book by Henry Finlay "To have and not to hold" about marriage in Australia. This isn’t strictly Tasmanian Genealogy so if inappropriate Admin please delete but this did affected some of our ancestors who came from England... A brief history of when men sold their wives at market, and why some women enthusiastically consented to ithttps://inews.co.uk/opinion/wife-selling-a-brief-history-of-when-men-sold-their-wives-at-market-and-why-many-women-enthusiastically-consented-to-it/?fbclid=IwAR2x4BAxIlzNDueV80grVAUmyo3c69LPE4vkHqs2J9WSy_QBGJ3zAp-D4GU