My great grandfather William James Reynolds was married twice. Or to be precise he married his first wife Catherine Fielder in 1872. By the 1881 census he had 1 child with her, Ellen Louise and they were in Poplar Union workhouse together. Just 2 years later in 1883 he had a child, Frank with presumably his second wife, my scottish great grandmother, Jane White nee Taylor who was born in Glasgow. My grandmother, Lillian Beatrice came along in 1890. I say presumably because i have never been able to find a marriage record for William & Jane which has raised to question did they marry at all or marry bigamously somewhere else?
Up until now for some reason i had never wondered why they only had the one child when they had been married for 9 years, so, i began investigating using Ancestry’s London parish records and have so far found another daughter born in 1879.
The thing that i want to work out now and im making it my next project is why in the space of 2 years he was with someone else. Probable reason being that Catherine and the girls died, or at least Catherine as the girls would have gone to relatives.
Can someone confirm that daughters, Ellen Louise and Catherine would have been my half great aunts?
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