For what it is worth this type of bigamy happened in the old West of the US. often after the Civil War. One of my ancestors was married to a woman in the East, after the war he wanted to move West, she didn't. He left her, no divorce, but somehow she was able to get his CW pension as if he were dead. He wasn't, he went West and married another woman and had a new family. We later found this out when doing some research and found his first sons of both marriage had the same name and there was some mix up who was the person named in the probate records. Jody On 7/17/07, Fred <alfredrienks@xtra.co.nz> wrote: > Hi Maisie, My Grandfather committed bigamy while my Grandmother lived in > the same area of Glasgow, with her seven children. He then emigrated to > Canada with his new wife. If only my Grandmother was still alive so I > could tell her, as all her children wondered were he was. ( I can't > think of a word to discribe, him ) > Allison. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Jody Allen, Researching: Scotland: Wallace, Mctaggart, Clarke, Mckean(d), McCartney, Stewart Ireland: Lynch, Drought Wales: Williams, Walsh