I can confirm the likelihood of this as it is just
what happened to my maternal grandmother's parents.
Hazel Smith (in Oude Wetering, Holland)
--- Sue Duckles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Helen
>
> Is it possible they were 'in service'? (working for
> the gentry...)
> They would have met their partners and got married
> there, but then had
> to go back home as a lot of big houses did not
> support servants and
> their partners.
>
> You can always look on the census after 1841 to see
> if it gives any
> details.
>
> sue in east yorkshire
> On 20 Jan 2008, at 00:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > As the list is quiet at the moment, I will take
> the opportunity to
> > pick the brains of all you genealogy experts and
> historians!
> >
> > I have a lot of family members on my tree who were
> born in the 1800s
> > in villages around Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire,
> Cambridgeshire,
> > etc. These are simple, country folk with the men
> often being farm
> > labourers and the like. Anyway, there are a
> significant numbers
> > (over 30) of marriages in London and I am
> wondering why this would
> > have been? For example, you have person A born in
> village X,
> > marries B also born in X. They go to London and
> get married then
> > come back and their children are all born in or
> around X. The
> > districts of London involved vary (St Pancras,
> Lambeth, Holborn, to
> > name but a few). Can any of you shed any light on
> why they would
> > have married in this way? A lot of the villages
> would have had rail
> > links with London but still. Also, would one or
> both have had to
> > move there for several weeks to meet the residency
> criteria - they
> > would hardly have had the money for a special
> license, surely - or
> > was there some sort of way round that?
> >
> > Any answers would be much appreciated :-)
> >
> > Regards, Helen (in Vancouver, BC where the earlier
> snow has now
> > washed away)
> >
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