On 06/09/2014 19:27, eve@varneys.org.uk wrote: > Perhaps he had got into debt as Richard, and this was > the way he hoped to dodge any bills or writs. > perhaps Richard had skipped and been replaced by a George (Bloggs) and > Emma was passing him off as her husband. > > I rather favour the middle one. It was easy to run into debt as a tailor, since > you had to give credit to customers, and if they then didn't pay up, -trouble. > Just ppossibly the problem reached newspapers -try the online listing. > I wouldn't trust someone else's Ancestry tree anyway - so many are cobbled > together without first engaging brain. I'm /fairly/ certain Emma was passing one of them off as her husband but I'm not sure which one. There's an 1862 death for a Richard who might be her possible/alleged husband. There's also a marriage for an Emma CRANE to a George CLEAVER in which she claims to be a spinster but no marriage to a Richard CLEAVER. It's been suggested George and Richard were brothers, the sons of a Thomas CLEAVER who was also a tailor. I don't have Emma or Sarah in 1861. There's nothing in the papers about him. I tried the London Gazette but it's changed out of all recognition and there doesn't seem to be any way of searching for any historical articles. Clicking on Insolvency just brings up a load of modern events. I don't trust 90% of the Ancestry trees anyway. None of those with CLEAVER trees have all the children. Sarah's the one most often missed off because she was married by 1871 so not with Emma and George. Thank you for the suggestion. -- Connie http://oursalmons.wordpress.com/