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Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 253 Send Message	Sarah	Report	10 Jun 2008 20:30
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 253 Send Message	Hi there, Wondering if anyone knows any family stories of bigamy? My Great Granddad, Charles Thomas Walker told my Granddad that his father was a bigamist and he'd never known him. His mother remarried when he was about 2. Hi father was Thomas John Partridge and his mother Mary Wall Walker, they certainly married in 1907 in Newton Abbott but by June of that year when Charles' birth was registered they must have been "unmarried" as Mary is listed with her maiden name. There was no divorce and he didn't die but in 1909 she remarried so I think bigamy s the logical conclusion - she must also have been pregnant already when they got married - tsk!! I can't find much on naughty Mr Partridge as we don't know how old he was so I can't tell which one he is on the BMD so if anyone has heard anything similar about a GG Granddad who ran off with another woman (but may have come crawling back!!) let me know. I d know he went to see my G Grandfather years later when he was a grown man and upon trying to introduce himself was told me my extremely mild manner farmer G G Grandfather to expletive off. He promptly did so and was never heard of again!