One of my Family Annie Marie Green married Edwin Heath @ Oldswinford in 1870. On the 1881 Census she is resident in Cherry Orchard Rowley Regis and is described as Head of Household but not a widow. Meanwhile Husband Edwin Heath is in Oldham Lancashire. In 1885 she emigrated to Australia with a baby under 1 year old. Two days after arriving she married James Priest a man ten years her junior. James Priest came from Wolverhampton. They may have met because Annie had family there.. By 1891 James Priest had mysteriously disappeared and Annie was in the process of marrying Husband no 3. Back in England Edwin Priest had remaried and started a new family in Lancashire. I suspect this may be an early form of un official divorce! If you cut contact with your spouse and emigrated to Australia. After 7 years with out contact you could be legally declared dead and both parties would be free to remarry! Andrew Pardoe