I've had lots of ideas thrown my way on this subject. From bigamy, poligamy, having the women committed and so on..... My husband said he wouldn't be surprised if his gr-grandfather wasn't a scoundrel! :-) I have looked and had others look for death records and divorce records and they were not found. Still searching though. It just seems unbelievable that he would or could handle marrying 3 women in 2 1/2 years! And according to marriage records, it is the same man (parents and occupation match up). The first wife was married on April 28, 1878. The second wife gave birth in Sept 1880 and he married the third wife on Jan 1 1881. It seems every time we do some more digging to find the answers we find more marriage records! The third wife is the mother of my husbands grandfather and his siblings. We had no record of any other marriages or children before I began to dig into his marriage records. Thanks for your suggestions. :-) Linda Whittaker Knott LilBitGal2@hotmail.com http://www.geocities.com/heartland/prairie/5868 England (Lincs, Notts, Dorset)WHITAKER,PINDER,PICKWORTH,KNOTT U.S.:WHITTAKER,LOVE,WEST,CHAPIN,MALOTT,COMSTOCK,ELLIS,FERGUSON KNOTT,GOODWIN,AVERY,CLARK,EVANS,MOCK,ROCHFORD,ALVEY ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com