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thats true Island but now people dont have as many children.There are some walk away to quikley my mum did she left my dad in there twentys but says now i wish i had stayed with your dad they where young and never gave it a chance. She has remarried and is like prisoner he will not even let her watch tv . she got portable tv and put it in the bedroom he found it and chucked it in the dustbin.all he watches is sport horrible man.she cooks brings to his then he will say dont want that go to the shops and go and get me soso.And there 25th wed anv he never turned up he was watching question off sport at home pig

Island, and Bob, I second that. I have a case in the family where the wife died leaving 8 children. Hubby 'married' her sister, and had a child of their own. A marriage has never been found, but I think the dead sister act would have been responsible for this. However, next census has 'second' wife, as wife, and 'mother to several of the children who are still at home. Hubby was buried with his first wife.
Julia in Derbyshire

One of my grt grt Uncles married a woman 20 years his senior, so *he* was the Toy Boy! No known children, and they messed with their ages from census to census to (presumably) make the age gap smaller. They only came clean when their deaths were registered. Suppose the gossip didn't bother them at that point!

My gt gt grandmothers 2nd marriage was to a man 15 yrs her junior. I think it might have been a marriage of convenience for one or both of them. Her first husband died of consumption leaving her with a small daughter. He probably needed a housekeeper. All guesswork of course. She didnt have any more children though.

Huia.

5 or 8 years difference is not a lot Kevin, as was said a new wife 15 or 20 years younger,taking on a blokes family is possible.
you may find that they kept it in the family sometimes like the bloke marrying (or maybe NOT marrying )his dead wifes sister, maybe......

Bob

and it could be the same reasons they are today money for both sex.Men and women some marry for money

some where 8 years some 5. its mostly the the man is 1yr or 2 more older than the women

i no in my nans old street they loved to gosip over the fence.And when they fell out they never spoke again it . reminds me off dick emery shows when he done the old lady sketches

your right the net curtains would be moveing a lot.And the local shops would now about it.She would be called a hussy

i have i bit off that the bloke marrying younger women .nothing was said then now it would be in OK magazine

plus it was cheaper to go bed early save on coal

In mine, its quite often the other way round, bloke has children, wife dies ( often in giving birth to the umpteenth child) and by next census he has remarried a girl 20 odd years his junior

THEY AT 100 YEARS AGO AND MORE THATS WHY THEY HAD BIG FAMILYS THE BLOKE HAD TO BE UP TO IT