More likely the husbands died or they separated rather than had a "proper" documented divorce Angela ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret Elliott" <meelliott@btinternet.com> To: <west-riding@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 8:52 PM Subject: Re: [WRY] Help needed with relationships > That is certainly an interesting theory! Thank you. Where should > I look to find information about divorces at that time? > > Regards > Margaret > > > On 13 Aug 2007, at 18:54, Claire wrote: > > > ok - if she was "Step Mother" to head of house then was she married > to John DANIELS' father? > > Maybe she was married 3 times - > > 1st marriage to ? STRAFFORD > 2nd marriage to ? DANIELS > 3rd marriage to ? JOHNSON > > making her step mother of John DANIELS and making John STRAFFORD step > brother to John DANIELS. > > hmmmm.... > > ~ Claire >> To: WEST-RIDING@rootsweb.com> From: meelliott@btinternet.com> Date: >> Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:04:46 +0100> Subject: [WRY] Help needed with >> relationships> > Please can someone with more genealogical >> experience than I help > interpret the following for me. Searching >> for relatives of Adelina > STRAFFORD I came across this entry from >> the 1851 census:> > ref: piece 2337 folio 477B> New George St 4> >> (Ecclesall Bierlow; Ecclesiastical District: St Mary's [Bramall >> Lane])> > John DANIELS Head Marr 32 spring knife cutler Sheffield> >> Mary A DANIELS Wife Marr 32 Sheffield> William DANIELS Son 10 >> scholar Sheffield> Emma DANIELS Dau 8 scholar Sheffield> Mary A >> DANIELS Dau 1 scholar [sic] Sheffield> Ann JOHNSON Step Mo Wid 70 >> household duties parish relf. Sheffield> John STRAFFORD Step Bro >> Widr 47 miller journeyman NTT Scrooby> > JOHN STRAFFORD is >> certainly Adelina's brother, and son of John and > Ann STRAFFORD. >> Age, birthplace and occupation are correct. John > and Adelina did >> in fact have a s! > ibling Mary Ann born in 1800, but she > married George FORD, was > born in Scrooby not Sheffield, and the age > on this census is quite > wrong. (From the 1861 census I discovered > that the Mary A DANIELS > had a daughter in 1855, so this Mary could > not possibly be John and > Adelina's sibling). So Mary A DANIELS was > not John STRAFFORD's > sister> > ANN JOHNSON. John and Adelina's mother was called Ann. But > she > disappeared (but I have been unable to find her death) between > the > birth of a son in 1810 and the marriage of John to Harriet > MILNER in > Scrooby in 1814. I suppose John and Ann STRAFFORD could > have > divorced(?) and Ann remarried.> > So what could be the > connection between the DANIELS and Ann JOHNSON > and John STRAFFORD?> > > Regards> Margaret> > > > > > -------------------------------> To > unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEST-RIDING- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > _________________________________________________________________ > Try Live.com - your fast, personalised homepage with all the things > you care about in one place. > http://www.live.com/?mkt=en-gb > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEST-RIDING- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >