On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 19:12:55 +0100 Nivard Ovington via <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Nivard, >Have I missed something? Maybe; One of the baptisms refers to Sarah's *husband* (John) being absent. That is, he left home at some time in the past for reasons not stated. So, Sarah was having children by at least one other man. Furthermore, with an absence of evidence to the contrary, I'd hazard a guess that her maiden name was not Ripley. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" Chose to play the fool in a six piece band What A Waste - Ian Dury And The Blockheads

Hi Brad Although we take husband to mean a married womans other half, its not the only definition I thought Lin was thinking the children were legitimate and the husband was away or transient but thats not the case Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 29/09/2014 20:23, Brad Rogers via wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 19:12:55 +0100 > Nivard Ovington via <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Nivard, > >> Have I missed something? > > > Maybe; One of the baptisms refers to Sarah's *husband* (John) being > absent. That is, he left home at some time in the past for reasons not > stated. So, Sarah was having children by at least one other man. > Furthermore, with an absence of evidence to the contrary, I'd hazard a > guess that her maiden name was not Ripley. >

On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 21:53:00 +0100 Nivard Ovington via <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Nivard, >Although we take husband to mean a married womans other half, its not >the only definition Whilst that's true, in the context of comments added to a PR, I find it quite hard to make any sense of the term husband with any definition other than that of a husband & wife relationship. Not impossible, just difficult. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" Now I found you out, I don't think you're so smart Who Are You - Black Sabbath

Yes, I think "natural born" was surely the charitable way the clergy would express it when there was no husband in evidence. On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Nivard Ovington via <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Brad > > Although we take husband to mean a married womans other half, its not > the only definition > > I thought Lin was thinking the children were legitimate and the husband > was away or transient but thats not the case > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > On 29/09/2014 20:23, Brad Rogers via wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 19:12:55 +0100 > > Nivard Ovington via <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello Nivard, > > > >> Have I missed something? > > > > > > Maybe; One of the baptisms refers to Sarah's *husband* (John) being > > absent. That is, he left home at some time in the past for reasons not > > stated. So, Sarah was having children by at least one other man. > > Furthermore, with an absence of evidence to the contrary, I'd hazard a > > guess that her maiden name was not Ripley. > > > ..... > Ancestors in Yorkshire? http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/index.html; > www.ryedalefamilyhistory.org; www.wharfedalefhg.org.uk; > www.yorkshireparishregisters.com; www.yorkshireroots.org.uk; > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Nancy McLaughlin Woodend, NZ [email protected]