Hi All, We are attempting to find out what happened to Elizabeth Mansfield Turner Baggott (b1835), wife of Moses Baggott (b1829) after 1869. They were from Wednesbury and Darlaston, but had moved, after the murder of his first wife in late 1867, to Sheffield, where they married in 1869. In 1871 Moses is living with another woman and had children with her the following year. He did not marry the new woman (Harriet) until 1878. So we are trying to figure out what happened to Elizabeth. There is no death registration that would fit her. We don't find her in later census records. We think she came from money, or relatively so, as she always had servants. She had no living children in 1869. Could they have divorced? Where could we look for a divorce record? One theory is that Moses waited until Elizabeth was dead so that he was free to marry Harriet. Their marriage cert lists him as a widower. However, he was already a widower when he married Elizabeth. We are really stumped on this one. Any suggestions? Foiled again, Lois (Columbo) and her friend, Sharon (Sherlock)
> Elizabeth Mansfield Turner Baggott (b1835) > There is no death registration that would fit her Have you searched under all three surnames? Have you searched the registers or only the indexes? > She had no living children in 1869. How did you come by this information? Have you checked for the death or birth of a child during the period 1869-1871? > in 1871 Moses is living with another woman and had children with her the following year Did Moses have any children that could have been Elizabeth's? In 1871 or later? Ron S