Re: Pace DNA study groups 3a & b
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Re: Pace DNA study groups 3a & b
James Blair 6/22/13
Interesting comment about the Bartholomew "unlawful marriage" case, on the Poythress list (quite old - 1997):
"The two issues for the court got scrambled but a) were the two really sisters and, if so, b) it was apparently against civil statute to marry the sister of one's deceased wife but NOT against ecclesiastical law.
Bartholomew played both cards but apparently won on the latter as the testimony is fairly conclusive that the two women were sisters. He also apparently won on appeal (if indeed it ever went to appeal) as the December 1694 document shows them as man and wife, whether happily or not we'll never know but lets hope so after 6 months of all that legal grief."
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/poythress/1997-09/0874540632http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/poythress/1997-09/0874540632
The poster was apparently unaware that the two women had been proved by the witnesses to be half-sisters rather than full sisters.Nevertheless, it brings up a question which as far as I know remains unanswered: did Bartholomew get off because his two wives were only half-sisters, and that was legally okay?Or did he get off because there was a conflict between ecclesiastical and statute law, with one system permitting the marriage and the other forbidding it?
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