I found divorces in court records. Holley ltguidetti wrote: > My ggggrandma's husband didn't die. They divorced. He remarried before she > did. > > Knowing my family, there would have been a divorce, or an annulment. She > came home from her elopement pregnant with a future minister. :) > > Both her father and her husband's father were fairly powerful men in > Lancaster County at the time, and with a child involved, there is no way > they would have tolerated a bigamy. I am kind of surprised that they were > even forced to divorce. But whatever... > > They lived in Upper Leacock Township, so I will have to look through the > Lancaster papers (any other suggestions?), but I don't think that it would > necessarily be there. That is the kind of thing they would have wanted to > "hide" - GGGma was only 15 or 16 when they ran off. Someone told me that > the father went after them and found them in Ohio. That doesn't mean they > got married there, though. MD would have been an easy stop, I think. > > Lynn > > > > >> Hi all - >> I am looking for a divorce record for Emma L. Bender and James Vogan Bare, >> from the 1870s. Emma is my ggggrandmother; she is from Upper Leacock >> Township. The Lancaster County courthouse doesn't have the record, >> although they do have divorce records for the county from 1850 on. I have >> called the Upper Leacock Presby Church, and can't get hold of anyone. That >> is where she and her family are buried. >> >> Any ideas where else I could look? I am thinking Cecil County, MD as a >> possibility. She did get the divorce, she is on the 1880 census as >> divorced, and she remarried my ggggrandfather in 1884. >> >> Thanks! >> Lynn >> >> >> >> >> Message: 3 >> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:11:10 -0700 (PDT) >> From: James Stokes <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] 1870s Divorce Record? >> To: [email protected] >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >> >> Hi Lynn, >> ???? I think in those days people didn't always file for divorse.? If her >> husband had died before she married for the second time she didn't really >> need a divorce.? I think it was not uncommon for people to remarry without a >> divorce.? I doubt that since if the Lancaster County Courthouse has no >> record of this divorce then there probably wasn't one. >> ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? >> Jim >> Conestoga Area Historical Society >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pacahs/index.htm<http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Epacahs/index.htm> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: ltguidetti <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 9:11:22 PM >> Subject: [PALANCAS] 1870s Divorce Record? >> >> Hi all - >> I am looking for a divorce record for Emma L. Bender and James Vogan Bare, >> from the 1870s.? Emma is my ggggrandmother; she is from Upper Leacock >> Township.? The Lancaster County courthouse doesn't have the record, >> although they do have divorce records for the county from 1850 on.? I have >> called the Upper Leacock Presby Church, and can't get hold of anyone.? That >> is where she and her family are buried. >> >> Any ideas where else I could look?? I am thinking Cecil County, MD as a >> possibility.? She did get the divorce, she is on the 1880 census as >> divorced, and she remarried my ggggrandfather in 1884. >> >> Thanks! >> Lynn >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> To contact the PALANCAS list administrator, send an email to >> [email protected] >> >> To post a message to the PALANCAS mailing list, send an email to >> [email protected] >> >> __________________________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] >> with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body >> of the >> email with no additional text. >> >> >> End of PALANCAS Digest, Vol 4, Issue 49 >> *************************************** >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Are we kin? I am descendant of: Jane (Wicker) English whose parents were Robert H. and Hannah (Holly) Wicker. Siblings of Jane include William, Sarah, Robert, Martha, John, Nathaniel, James, Julius, Rachel, Nancy and Hannah. Jane and husband Thomas English and several of their children died in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. Old records indicate that Jane's parents as well as Julius and the Rachel Tennille family also here. I have not researched this family, however, I have written a book about Jane and Thomas English's son John. PAT SHIVELY ELMORE