| Names |
Details |
Legal? |
| John & Richard Ansell and Elizabeth & Emma Roberts |
Henry Richard Ansell, was born in 1866 in Limehouse, and married Eliza Amelia Ennever aka Eliza Amelia Hannaway in 1888. Henry's father, John Ansell and John's brother, Richard Ansell, had both earlier married Roberts sisters. John married Elizabeth Roberts in 1859 and in 1861 Richard married her sister, Emma Roberts. When Richard married Emma it appears they were both living at 37 Northey Street with both giving George Street as apparently false addresses. |
Yes |
| Charles Green Appleton, Henry Collins and Sarah Jane & Harriet Agnes Thomas |
In this detailed history you will find the story of two connected bigamous marriages. Charles Green Appleton, having married Harriet Agnes Thomas in 1850 then married her younger sister, Sarah Jane, in 1852 in what was clearly a bigamous relationship.
The discovery of this marriage meant that Sarah Jane Thomas's marriage to Henry Collins in 1857 was also bigamous because although Charles Green Appleton had emigrated to Australia in 1853, he was still very much alive. |
No
No |
| Charles White George Brooke |
Charles married Harriet Emma Lockyer in 1848 and they had a daughter, Marie born in 1884/5. Harriet died in 1891 and Charles then married her younger sister, Elizabeth Lockyer, the following year, Elizabeth dying in 1902. No children can be found from that marriage. Charles then married Harriet and Elizabeth's cousin, Emma Sarah Lockyer, in 1902, again no children have been traced.
Harriet Emma Lockyer's cousin, Harriet Emma Curtis, first married Frederick Edwin Purnell and on his death married Frederick Ennever. It is likely that both Frederick Purnell and his wife had worked with Frederick Ennever, as they were all working in the Iron Bedstead industry in the Islington area. |
No
(Charles to Elizabeth Lockyer) |
| Charles Gordon McLeod Buchanan |
Charles Gordon McLeod Buchanan married his cousin Grace Jeanette Eagar in 1915 at Scone, NSW, Australia. Both were descended from George Ennever, the forger, cobbler and innkeeper who was transported to Australia. |
Yes |
| Ernest Albert Collins |
Ernest Albert Collins married Matilda Brandon in 1911 and William Clark first married Annie Elizabeth Collis and after her death in 1922 married Matilda's younger sister, Annie Brandon in 1929. William Clark's daughter, Annie, by his first marriage then married Ernest Albert Collins' son, Ernest John Collins. |
Yes
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| George Henry Clark and Edith Maud Elizabeth Collins |
George was the son of William Henry Clark and Eliza Elizabeth Morris, who married in London in 1873. After Eliza's death in 1899, William married Mary Elizabeth Adams, who had previously been married to Edwin James Ennever, otherwise known as Edwin James Collins. Edith was the daughter of Edwin and Mary.
Edith was the daughter-in-law of William and George, her husband, was the son-in-law of Mary, William and Mary having married in 1900. |
Yes |
| John Shortland Baring Deck and Edward Humfrey Rayment Deck |
John married Betty Muriel Angus, who was the daughter of William Reginald Angus and Muriel Frances Thompson in 1935. William Reginald Angus's second wife was Lucy Mary Baring Deck, John's younger sister.
Edward Humfrey Rayment Deck also married an Angus, Ruth Marion in 1943. Edward was John's cousin and Betty Muriel Angus and Ruth Marion Angus were sisters.
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Yes |
| Edward Eagar |
Edward Eagar was sentenced to death but was reprieved and transported from Ireland to Sydney, NSW, Australia for uttering a forged Bill of Exchange. Four years after his arrival he married Jemima McDuel and had four children with her. He left his NSW family and returned to England in about 1821 and is believed to have married the sixteen-year-old Ellen Gorman, with whom he had a reported ten children. The marriage record has yet to be found. The full story of Edward's prominent life in Australia can be found here. |
No
(Edward's marriage to Ellen Gorman, if proven) |
| Thomas Henry Enever & Alfred Enever |
Thomas and Alfred were brothers and married Power sisters. Thomas Henry Enever married Ellen (Nell/Nellie) Power in 1911 and his younger brother, Alfred Enever, married Ellen's younger sister, Dora Maud Power, in 1919. This marriage took place nearly two years after Thomas was killed in France during World War 1. |
Yes |
| Charlotte (Lottie) Ennever & Samuel Lacy |
Charlotte Ennever married Samuel Lacy (or Lacey) in Fulham in 1898 and can be found with her husband and young son, also Samuel, in Scarsdale Road, Camberwell, London in 1901. No trace has been found of either Samuel after that date and Charlotte re-married in 1915 to Alfred John Farr. Alfred was cosiderably younger than Charlotte and it is not surprising that she "lost" a few years of age on her marriage certificate. What is unusual is that despite her earlier marriage to Samuel she is recorded as a spinster. |
Not known |
| Clara Ennever and Emily Ennever |
Clara married John Brice in Manhattan, New York in 1881 and in 1884 Emily, her older sister married James Brice, also in Manhattan. The relationship between the Brices has not yet been established but it seems likely that they were brothers. |
Yes |
| Elizabeth Ennever and Caroline Ennever |
Elizabeth Ennever married a Henry Thomas Ashenden in 1885 while her sister, Caroline, also married a Henry Thomas Ashenden, the uncle of Elizabeth's husband. Henry and Caroline also named their eldest child Henry Thomas. |
Yes |
| Ernest Ennever & William Buckle Todd |
Ernest & William married two Griffiths sisters, Elizabeth Harriet Griffiths & Anne (Annie) Griffiths, respectively. Ernest was the son of Thomas Henry Ennever, who married Eliza Everett in 1840, while William Buckle Todd was Eliza's grandson by her daughter, Louisa, born before Eliza's marriage. Ernest was therefore William's uncle. It is presumed that Louisa was not Thomas's child as she was born in about 1835 while Thomas & Eliza didn't marry until 1840 and Louisa is recorded as Everett on her marriage to Francis Henry Todd in 1855. |
Yes |
| George Alfred Ennever |
George Alfred Ennever, otherwise known as George Alfred Collins, was born out of the illicit relationship between Henry Collins and his wife's niece Mary Stothart Ennever (click here for details of this story). George's birth was registered as Ennever, with no father's name recorded, but at the time of his marriage was using his natural father's name of Collins. He married Caroline Old in 1899 in Bethnal Green and after her death in 1903 he married Susannah Parducci, also in Bethnal Green, in 1908. Caroline Old was the daughter of John Old and Maria Elizabeth Illingworth and Susannah Parducci was the daughter of Mary Ann Illingworth, Maria's sister. Two grandchildren of James John Illingworth and Harriet Doyle had therefore both married George. |
Yes |
| Henry Ennever |
Henry married Rebecca Peare in 1850 and after her death in 1898 he married Priscilla Ann Williams (nee Collins and formerly Jones and Williams). One of Priscilla's younger sisters, Emma, had married Henry's brother, Robert Ponder Ennever, in 1877. The two Ennever brothers had therefore, eventually, married two of the Collins' sisters. |
Yes |
| Henry Nunns and Mary Amelia Ennever |
Henry and Mary were first cousins and married in 1864 in New York, both Henry's and Mary's parents having emigrated to the USA. Marriages between cousins is illegal in a number of US states but as far as I know is legal in New York. |
Yes
(as far as I understand New York State law) |
| Henry Wade Ennever and Edith Jane Ennever |
Henry Wade and Edith Jane were brother and sister and married sister and brother, Florence Alice Huff and Henry Thomas Huff, respectively. See also Lily Florence & Mary Nora, two of Henry Wade Ennever's daughters (below) who also married siblings. |
Yes |
| James Ennever and William Enever |
James and William were brothers, although had been registered with different surname spellings, their father being George Ennever. James married Hannah Whitbread in 1866 in the Romford district, probably Upminster, while William married Hannah's younger sister, Alice, ten years later.
Also interesting is that a Thomas Tadloo, aged 18, was visiting the Whitbread family at the time of the 1851 census and the Ennever/Enever family are living in Tadloo's Yard in 1861.
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Yes |
| Jane Ennever |
Jane was born in 1858 to Charles Ennever and Elizabeth Jane Seyler. Charles had previously had 3 children with Amelia Frances Herring although no marriage has been found to either of these spouses. Charles, after Elizabeth Seyler's death, married twice, firstly to Elizabeth Tadman and later to Mary Ann Parker.
Jane Ennever was living with her father in 1861 although we lose track of her in 1871, she married James Edward Common in 1884 and was living with him in 1881 as his wife and their 2 young children. James died later in 1884 and the year after his death Jane married his eldest brother, Simon Robert Common, and they went on to have 9 children together. |
No
(Jane's marriage to Simon Common) |
| Joseph Henry Ennever and Herman Emmanuel Ennever |
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Yes |
| Julia Ennevor and Paul Walter |
Julia's father, Maurice Alexander Joseph Ennevor, first married Margaret Pollack in about 1929 and Julia was one of four children from the marriage. He later married Catherine Walter (maiden name unknown), whose son from her first marriage, Paul, married Julia sometime in the 1950s. |
Yes |
| Lily Florence Ennever and Mary Nora Ennever |
Lily and Mary were sisters and married two Anthony brothers. Lily Florence Ennever married Harry Anthony in 1921 in Manchester, Lancashire and Mary Nora Ennever married Harry's brother, Frank Anthony, in 1934, also in Manchester. See also Henry Wade Ennever (above), father of Lily & Mary, who with his sister also married siblings. |
Yes |
| Nellie Frances Ennever |
Nellie Frances Ennever was born in 1878 in the Poplar area and in 1902 she married Leonard Percy Martin. Leonard was killed in France in the First World War and just over a year later she married one of his elder brothers, Hubert William Martin. |
No |
| Robert Ennever |
Robert Ennever was born in 1818 and married Mary Stothart Thomas in 1839 and there were 2 children of the marriage, one being Mary Stothart Ennever. Mary Thomas died in June 1843 and six months later, in December, Robert married Mary's younger sister, Harriet Agnes Thomas. There were also 2 children of this marriage.
Additionally, Robert George Ennever, the eldest son of Robert Ennever and Harriet Agnes Thomas married Maria Eliza Collins, Henry Collins' sister, in Australia, Henry Collins being the husband of Mary Stothart Ennever's aunt. The other close relationships that existed between these two families can be found in the history of Mary Stothart Ennever here. |
No
(Robert's marriage to Harriet Agnes Thomas) |
| William Ennever |
William Ennever married Jane Gray in 1816, Jane dying in 1832, having had three children. William then married Mary Wade, having one child, Elizabeth Mary Ennever in 1835. Following Mary's death in 1838 he married Elizabeth Wade, daughter of David Wade, who was born in Harringworth, Northamptonshire. It is assumed, although not proven, that Mary Wade was Elizabeth's eldest sister. |
No
(assuming that Mary & Elizabeth were sisters) |
| Elizabeth Harriet Griffiths & Anne Griffiths |
See Ernest Ennever & William Buckle Todd above. |
Yes |
| Henry Martyn Helmore |
Henry Martyn Helmore married Elizabeth Pickard in 1889 in West Ham, Essex after the birth of their first child, Gerald H Helmore. In the 1901 census he is recorded as married to a Mary Ann and a marriage is recorded with Mary Ann Pickard, Elizabeth's older sister, in 1893. These marriages have yet to be proved but apart from the census and index data, Mary can be found staying with Henry and Elizabeth in 1891 and Henry's mother-in-law, Ann Pickard, nee Weston, is living with the family in 1901. No trace of Elizabeth's death or re-marriage has yet been found, however. |
No |
| Robert Henry Helmore and Thomas Edmond Helmore |
Robert Henry Helmore married Elizabeth Gullock Sully in 1863 and Elizabeth's younger sister, Adelia Jane Sully, had married James Charles Western in 1860. On James's death, probably in 1869, Adelia Jane married Robert's younger brother, Thomas Edmond Helmore. |
No (Adelia's marriage to Thomas) |
| John Augustus Lapidge and Mary Ann Lapidge |
John and Mary married in the Hackney district in November 1862 and are believed to be first cousins although this has not been proved. |
Yes |
| Edwin John Lensh and William Henry Lensh |
Two Lensh brothers married two of the Mullen daughters, Edwin marrying Frances Maria in 1888 with William having married Kathleen in 1883. Most of the earlier Lensh children were registered as Lynch, while all of the later children were registered as Lensh. This was probably reflecting the Irish pronunciation of Lynch, or was possibly to disguise their Irish background or possibly to disguise Daniel Lynch's financial difficulties even though his bankruptcy did not take place until 1868, some years after the first "Lensh" registration. |
Yes |
| Alfred William Long and Anna (Annie) Long |
Alfred William Long was born in 1881/2 in Bale, Norfolk. He was the son of Thomas Tadman and Dorcas Elvina Long who were to marry after Thomas's wife, Phoebe Southgate, died in 1889 having had 3 children together.
Alfred married Anna Long in 1901 and the marriage certificate names Walter Long, a blacksmith, as Alfred's father. The father’s name appears to be fictitious as there is no obvious trace of a Walter Long, a Blacksmith, although further enquiries seem to identify Walter as Anna's younger step-brother. Her grandfather, Robert Long, was a Blacksmith as was a great uncle and his son, thus completing the connection. Alfred was working in Cable Street, Shadwell, London with his father at the time of his marriage and it is unclear why he did not name him when marrying Anna.
Although Anna Long's father is not named, I am now certain that Alfred William Long (also known as Alfred William Tadman) married his 2nd cousin, the illegitimate daughter of Anna Long, one of Robert Long's daughters. Anna was the first cousin, once removed, of Dorcas Elvina Long, Alfred's father's wife.
See also our " Questions" page about Robert Long and also Thomas Tadman below. |
Yes |
| Frank Thomas Lubnow and Wilhelmina (Minnie) Vera Lubnow |
Frank Thomas and Wilhelmina (Minnie) Vera Lubnow were the children of Frank Lubnow and Elizabeth Wade Ennever. Elizabeth had married Wilhelm Einhorn in March 1901 but must have fallen pregnant in a relationship with Frank Lubnow about three months into the marriage, Frank Lubnow having been born in March 1902. No marriage has been found of Elizabeth to Frank.
The two children of the relationship with Frank Lubnow seem to have married a brother and sister, although this has not been proven. Frank married Beatrice Fergusson in 1927 and Wilhelmina (Minnie) Vera married an Albert Fergusson in 1934. A brother & sister, Beatrice and Albert, can be found in Kensington in the 1901 census. |
Yes |
| Frank Mason & Emma Mason |
Frank and Emma were grandchildren of Samuel Clarke and Emma Ennever and married Hammant siblings. Frank married Rosina Sarah Hammant in 1903 in London while Emma had married Rosina's elder brother, Thomas George Hammant, in 1901. |
Yes |
| Arthur James Midlane and Frederick Midlane |
The two Midlane brothers married two Springall sisters, Elizabeth and Emma Springall while Ellen (Nell) Midlane, another sister, married George Enever. |
Yes |
| John Shepherd Miller |
John married Catherine Overton in 1856 and following her death in 1894 he married her cousin, Maria Overton, in 1896. |
Yes |
| Roland Charles Morris & Frances Mills |
John Walton Morris married Anastasia Bridget Brennan in 1879 and having 8 children together before Anastasia died in 1895 almost certainly as the result of giving birth to their eighth child. According to a family story, Emily's first husband, Alexander Mills, worked on John Morris's farm and he too died in about 1895. John Walton Morris then married Emily Jane Mills nee Frankland while his son, Roland Charles Morris, from his first marriage became involved with Frances Caroline Emily (Fanny), Emily's daughter from her first marriage, who fell pregnant and was shipped off to New Zealand for the birth of her twins, only one of whom survived. Roland Charles Morris appears to then have married in some haste, marrying Emma Draper in the same year that his children with Frances Mills were born. |
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| Mary Ennever Morris |
Mary Ennever Morris, daughter of the forger George Ennever, married William Buchanan in Australia in 1858. After her death William married his wife's niece, Kate Ellen Anne Eagar. |
Yes |
| Henry Nichols and Beris Esther Nichols |
Henry Nichols (known as Harry Nichols) married his cousin, Beris Esther Nichols, in 1938. |
Yes |
| William Thomas Orchard |
William Thomas Orchard married Mary Florence Klinker in West Ham, Essex in 1915 and when she died he married her cousin, Lily Rose Tadman, in 1958. |
Yes |
| Adam Overton |
Adam married his first cousin, Ada Ellen Pollyn in 1895. Adam was the son of Christopher Overton and Ada was the daughter of Elizabeth Sarah Overton, Christopher's younger sister. Christopher and Elizabeth and the other eight children of Benjamin Turner Overton were all born in Tilney All Saints, Norfolk. See also Overtons below and John Shepherd Miller above. |
Yes |
| Benjamin Turner Overton and William Edmund Overton |
Two of the sons of William Overton and Sophia Turner both married daughters of Watson Failes and Catherine Fisher. Benjamin married Ann Failes in 1832 and his elder brother, William, having married Ann's eldest sister, Sarah Failes, in 1826. Both marriages took place in Tilney All Saints, Norfolk. See also John Shepherd Miller above. |
Yes |
| Elizabeth Sarah Overton and Ann Abigail Overton |
Elizabeth Sarah Overton, whose daughter, Ada Ellen Pollyn, married her cousin (see above), and her eldest sister, Ann Abigail Overton, both married Pollyn boys. Elizabeth Sarah married Benjamin Johnson Pollyn in 1864 while Ann Abigail having had an illegitimate son in 1857/8 married his brother, Robert Remington Pollyn, in 1865. Ann died ten years later and Robert then married Sarah Elizabeth Desborough. It is not currently known if Robert & Ann had any children, or if they have survived. See also John Shepherd Miller above. |
Yes |
| Elizabeth Harriet Paul |
Elizabeth married Arthur William Ennever (known as Arthur William Collins) in 1898, Arthur dying in 1909. She then married Arthur's older brother, Robert Edgar Ennever (known as Robert Edgar Collins) in 1918.
After 1907 it was legal for a woman to marry her deceased husband's brother but not until 1921 was it legal for a man to marry his brother's wife (see forbidden marriages & notes above). As this marriage took place in 1918 it was legal for Elizabeth Paul but bizarrely it was illegal for Robert Edgar Collins/Ennever! |
Yes & No!
(See across) |
| Frank Pook and Jane Pook |
Thomas King Clothier and his sister Ruth married Jane and Frank Pook respectively, also siblings. Coincidentally, we lose track of both Thomas and Frank after their marriages which both took place in 1876. See the " Questions" page to see if you can help us trace them. |
Yes |
| George Renecle, Jane Brooman & Eliza Brooman |
George Renecle married two Brooman girls. He married Jane Brooman in the Medway district of Kent in 1871, having at least 6 children with her before Jane's death in 1885. In 1887 he then married Eliza Brooman, Eliza dying soon afterwards in 1887. George then married Alice Annie Rogers in 1888 in the Lewisham district having two children with Alice. It is not currently known if the two Brooman girls were related but it would seem very likely. George's daughter, Alice Annie Renecle, with Alice married Oscar William (Willie) Ennever in 1913. |
Not known |
| George Henry Spratt and Elizabeth Ann Pollyn |
George Henry Spratt married his cousin, Elizabeth Ann Pollyn in 1898 in the King's Lynn District. They were both grandchildren of Benjamin Turner Overton and Ann Failes. A number of other marriages took place between the Overton families and their relations (see Miller, Nicholls, Overton & Pollyn elsewhere on this page). |
Yes |
| Ernest Dudley Such and Olive Margaret Such |
Ernest married Olive in September 1917 at St Peter's Church in Ealing, Middlesex and they were first cousins, both being grandchildren of James Such and Mary Ann Ennever, who had married in 1853. |
Yes |
| Phoebe Such and David Such |
Phoebe Such and David Such were siblings, children of William Such, born c1798 in Nevendon Essex, and his second wife, Mary Ann Horsnell, born c1807 in Wickford, Essex.
Phoebe married Thomas John Bedlow of Rawreth, Essex in 1864 and David Such married Henrietta Livermore (nee Bedlow). William Livermore, who was Henrietta's first husband appears to have died in 1869. The two Such siblings had therefore married the two Bedlow siblings.
David Such is thought to have died in 1873 but no trace can be found of Henrietta after 1871 although it is possible she re-married in 1876. No children have been found to David & Henrietta. |
Yes |
| Thomas Tadman |
Thomas married Phoebe Southgate in 1862 and after her death in 1889 he married Dorcas Elvina Long in 1892. Phoebe was the daughter of William Southgate and Dorcas was the illegitimate daughter of Ellen Long, her brother William's wife. Thomas had therefore married the step-daughter of his first wife's brother.
See also Alfred William Long above.
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Yes |
| George John Warne & William Henry Warne |
George and William were brothers and married Tanner sisters. George married Louisa Caroline Tanner in Islington in 1862 and William later married Cornelia Tanner in 1874 in Hoxton, London. |
Yes |
| Alice Emma Willock |
Alice Willock was born in Mile End, London in 1889 and in 1912 married Arthur Herbert Ennever. Arthur died in 1924 at the young age of 36 and in 1933 Alice married Frederick James, Arthur's older brother, who had lost his wife, Rose Louisa (nee) Mason, the year before. |
Yes
(legal after 1907/1921) |
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