Dear All, I happened across the following just now, and am a little puzzled. It appears my paternal grandparents married each other twice within nine months, once in his home town, and once in hers. Is this even remotely normal? (It should perhaps be noted that my grandfather, a Lieutenant, Acting Captain, in the Royal Engineers at the time, "copped a Blighty wound" in March, 1918, but had partially recovered and was based in UK at the time of both marriages.) Civil Registration event: Marriage MarriageFinder: Mary R E Halsted [Mary Ruth Every-Halsted] married Gerald H Mawson [Gerald Hargreave Mawson] Name: HALSTED, Mary R E Registration District: Leeds County: Yorkshire Year of Registration: 1918 Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec Spouse's last name: Mawson Volume No: 9B Page No: 831 Name: MAWSON, Gerald H Registration District: Leeds County: Yorkshire Year of Registration: 1918 Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec Spouse's last name: Every Halsted Volume No: 9B Page No: 831 Civil Registration event: Marriage MarriageFinder: Mary R E Halsted married Gerald H Mawson Name: HALSTED, Mary R E Registration District: Kington County: Herefordshire Year of Registration: 1919 Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun Spouse's last name: Mawson Volume No: 6A Page No: 1515 Name: MAWSON, Gerald H Registration District: Kington County: Herefordshire Year of Registration: 1919 Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun Spouse's last name: Halsted Volume No: 6A Page No: 1515 Any assistance will be warmly welcomed. ATB -- Mike Michael Hargreave Mawson Born in the North Riding, but now a Soft Southern Jessie.

Mike You will find the details of the marriage in 1918 (and the family history) online at http://www.halstedresearch.org.uk/p62.htm#i6118 There is no notes that I have found yet in the papers of Ray Lewis-Jones that relate to the second marriage but I would be interested if you do find the answer! Regards John Hanson, Researcher the Halsted Trust - the research is online at www.halstedresearch.org.uk -----Original Message----- From: west-riding-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:west-riding-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Michael Hargreave Mawson Sent: 07 February 2012 16:27 To: WEST-RIDING@rootsweb.com Subject: [WRY] If marriage is good, why not do it twice? Dear All, I happened across the following just now, and am a little puzzled. It appears my paternal grandparents married each other twice within nine months, once in his home town, and once in hers. Is this even remotely normal? (It should perhaps be noted that my grandfather, a Lieutenant, Acting Captain, in the Royal Engineers at the time, "copped a Blighty wound" in March, 1918, but had partially recovered and was based in UK at the time of both marriages.) Civil Registration event: Marriage MarriageFinder: Mary R E Halsted [Mary Ruth Every-Halsted] married Gerald H Mawson [Gerald Hargreave Mawson] Name: HALSTED, Mary R E Registration District: Leeds County: Yorkshire Year of Registration: 1918 Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec Spouse's last name: Mawson Volume No: 9B Page No: 831 Name: MAWSON, Gerald H Registration District: Leeds County: Yorkshire Year of Registration: 1918 Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec Spouse's last name: Every Halsted Volume No: 9B Page No: 831 Civil Registration event: Marriage MarriageFinder: Mary R E Halsted married Gerald H Mawson Name: HALSTED, Mary R E Registration District: Kington County: Herefordshire Year of Registration: 1919 Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun Spouse's last name: Mawson Volume No: 6A Page No: 1515 Name: MAWSON, Gerald H Registration District: Kington County: Herefordshire Year of Registration: 1919 Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun Spouse's last name: Halsted Volume No: 6A Page No: 1515 Any assistance will be warmly welcomed. ATB -- Mike Michael Hargreave Mawson Born in the North Riding, but now a Soft Southern Jessie. Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- 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