Hello List: What we have here sounds very much like a "working class divorce". Until well after WWII, it was very expensive for working class people to divorce legally, so most of them didn't bother - they just separated, and remarried biganously, declaring themselves to be single or widowed. If you did this in a large town or city no-one would possibly know. No need to sign any document except the marriage register. Large numbers, including my grandmother did exactly that. Lucky for me that she did, or I wouldn't be here. Best wishes Paul 2009/8/17 Velda Hampton <[email protected]> > Thanks Cassie and Yorkie > I have spoken to staff at GRO and they say that in 1924 my Grandmother > could > have signed a document for the Registrar saying that she was a widow and it > would have been accepted, especially so near to the end of WW1. It was a > legal document and the onus was on her to tell the truth! My Grandfather > married again in 1926 in Lancashire and declared himself to be a bachelor - > easier for a man. My Grandmother had to re-marry under her married name as > she had a child and the neighbours knew of her short-lived marriage. > > Velda > > > > ------------------------------------- > The only List that specifically covers the whole of the Black Country. Run > by Black Country folk who were born and still live in the area. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >