On Mar 17, 2015, at 9:44 PM, Steve Hayes via wrote: >> I suspect that a law was passed that only >> those marriages which were conducted in a Magistrate's Court would be >> recognized from 1906. Obviously marriages were conducted by religious >> ministers before 1906, but maybe they became too relax, e. g. by allowing >> parties who were not officially divorced to remarry. I do not see that kind evidence in my own research. Marriage records in the 19th century were required to state whether the marriage was by license or banns, so one or other had to be arranged. I have a case in the King family where the man was having children with his future thord wife and also with h is current second wife. After the 2nd wife died, he tried to marry the mother of the children he had by the third woman, but did not actually do so, till ten years later. So there was indeed hankypanky but I find no actual marriages that are bigamous. The children became legitimate at age ten etc in the above case, when he finally did get married to the third woman he slept with. Namaste, Irene -- Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom. P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220. www.Furryboots.info (Info on Feline health, genetics, nutrition & homeopathy) "Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."