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From: "Jo Taylor" <>
Subject: Re: New name interest - MILLER
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 12:43:37 +0200
References: <000e01c13107$48de8800$94de6518@hwallis1>


Hello Hugh,

Not what you're asking, but the second marriage would have been illegal - as
any such between 1835 and the passing of the Deceased Wife's Sister's
Marriage Act in 1907...

More information available if it's of interest.

HTH
Jo Taylor
~~~~~~~~
> William MILLER was a bandsman in H.M.'s 36th Regiment when he married
> Harriet Lavinia VOSPER, 31 December 1859, Register Office, Stoke Damerel,
> Devon. On 29 June 1866 at Register Office (by Licence), Stoke Damerel,
> Devon, having been widowed, he married Harriet's younger sister Hannah
Maria
> VOSPER.
>
> By 1881 they had disappeared off the face of the (census taker's) earth
>
> Anyone know what happened to them?
>
> Thanks
>
> Hugh Wallis
> Ontario, Canada
>
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