William Adams 1826(?) - 1870 (General)

by Mike Pinchin , Bedford, England, Monday, February 23, 2015, 23:09 (3554 days ago) @ nigeldownunder

This extract from the BNA contains some interesting information:-

Gloucester Journal – Saturday 08 April 1843

HEREFORD, March 30 – Eliza TAYLOR, aged 38, was charged with having married one Edward JONES, at the Parish of Welsh Newton, in this county, her former husband, George TAYLOR, being at the time alive. It appeared from the evidence of the parish clerk of Penalt, in the adjoining county of Monmouth, that the prisoner was married in the church of that parish on the 24th September 1842, to George TAYLOR. For some reason, which the learned counsel for the prosecution did not state, and which did not clearly transpire, she, shortly after her marriage, conceived an aversion for him whose fate and fortunes she had solemnly undertaken to share; and thinking that a few weeks’ trial of the partner of her bed was sufficient to enable her to form an accurate opinion of his merits, she, on the 1st November, united herself in wedlock to another fortunate swain, the above-named Edward JONES and took up her abode under the roof of her newly-acquired husband………………….

[She appears to have been acquitted on the technicality that her former husband’s name was not included on the indictment such that the jury might be satisfied of his being alive at the time of the alleged intermarriage.]

LDS records this marriage but does not have the bride’s age. However, her father’s name matches.

Name: Edward Jones
Birth Date: 1812
Age: 30
Spouse's Name: Eliza Cutter
Event Date: 01 Nov 1842
Event Place: Welsh Newton, Hereford, England
Father's Name: John Jones
Spouse's Father's Name: William Jones
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I04583-1 , System Origin: England-EASy , GS Film number: 1594778 Reference ID: item 3 p 5

This all seems too much to be coincidence even though the age in the report is apparently out by 10 years. But what about the two TAYLOR children? And what about the validity of the marriage to John HARRIS?