>did find TWO marriage licenses for her and John Johnson, >which seems to indicate that they divorced and remarried. How far apart the marriage licenses were in time would matter a lot as to how you interpret all this. If the two licenses were years apart, then there may indeed have been divorce and remarriage. However, if the licenses were taken out within a year or so of each other, it just may be that something prevented the first marriage from taking place, and they had to take out a new license. I suspect that, then as now, the license had some sort of time limit between the taking out of the license and the actual marriage. If this was delayed [death in the family? other major life change?], they probably had to take out a new license.