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From: "avril" <>
Subject: RE: [FENS] Same couple but 2 weddings puzzle.............
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:22:06 -0000
In-Reply-To: <048901c19ea4$7e4b6520$3d6e4ac3@saphire6w358ci>

Was there some "just cause or impediment" in English law to the couple
getting married? The Danish laws may have been more "flexible". We have an
instance in 1851 of somebody on our tree popping across to Denmark to marry
his sister-in-law. The only way we found about it was because he wrote the
following codicil to his will:

This is a codicil to be added to and taken as part of the last will and
testament of me Thomas Hagger of Fulbourn in the County of Cambridge
collar-maker grocer and general dealer bearing date the eighteenth of May
one thousand eight hundred and fifty. Whereas in and by my said will I have
given and bequeathed all my household goods and furniture plate linen china
pictures monies securities for money debts and all other my personal estate
unto certain trustees named in my said will upon the trusts in my said will
declared in favour of all my children who should be living at the time of my
decease and whereas since the making and executing my said will I have
intermarried with Sophia Austin a sister of my deceased wife which marriage
took place at Wandsbeck in the Kingdom of Denmark and therefore I do hereby
revoke the said gift and bequest contained in my said will (except as to my
monies securities for money and debts) and do hereby give and bequeath the
said household goods and furniture plate linen china pictures and other my
personal estate (except my monies securities for money and debts) unto my
wife Sophia Hagger otherwise Sophia Austin to and for her own absolute use
and benefit and I do hereby appoint my said wife Sophia Hagger otherwise
Sophia Austin an executor of my said will in conjunction with the executors
in and by my said will named and appointed and in all other respects I
ratify and confirm my said will. In witness whereof I have hereto set my
hand this first day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-one.

Look forward to the discussion on this one.

Avril

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  • Re: [FENS] Same couple but 2 weddings puzzle............. by "Trena H" <>

  • RE: [FENS] Same couple but 2 weddings puzzle............. by "avril" <>

  • Re: [FENS] Same couple but 2 weddings puzzle............. by "Liane" <>
  • RE: [FENS] Same couple but 2 weddings puzzle............. by "L. R. Mills" <>
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  • [FENS] Re: Same couple but 2 weddings puzzle............. by wendy doyle <>
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