Are you really sure he had never been married before. I have people who got married late went down as single and one in particular had 3 previous marriages. Even women used their previous married name as maiden names. So you never know
I wondered if any of you knowledgeable people may be able to explain the big age difference.
My 4x great grandmother Ann WAITE married a bachelor William DUCKITT 6n 1773. She was 19 and he was a farmer aged 60. He died in 1776. I cannot find a child.
Why would he marry a young girl so late in his life when he had never married before? I wonder how involved her father might have been in arranging the marriage knowing that her husband would leave her well provided for. When she remarried 3 months after her husband died, her husband did very well out of it!
Margaret
