Yes as I said it does happen I have one in Leicestershire, he born 1830 has three children with first wife, she dies and he has a young girl to do domestic chores He married her when she was 14 or 15 in 1861, he was 31 They would call it something today but they went on to have seven children to add to the first three, the eldest was five years younger than his step mum Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Yes she was born Apr 54 during the time her parents were in Barcelona > between brothers born in England in Jun 1851,d bef 61 Oct 52 [died in > Barcelona in o'seas index ] 56 England apprenticed in 71 census. None > of my family seem to have known of the child born in 1856 maybe they > were apart so too young to remember