Dianadiluca@aol.com wrote: > Yes, it could be they didn't get married and pretended to be man and wife. > I think a lot of it went on. I think you're right but some people get very prissy about their ancestors not marrying <G> > But why wouldn't they have married unless of > course one of them was already married! That could be the reason none of them > can be found! It's possible one or even both was still married or it could be that their first child was on the way before they married (not uncommon) and they decided to wait until afterwards but never quite got a Round Tuit. Another possibility is that the wife was a widow when she remarried. If that was the case, then she'd have married under her late husband's name which did not have to be mentioned on the birth certs of her children by her second husband. Don't give up looking though.