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Spouses/Children:
1. Unknown
2. VALLELY, Rose Agnes
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MILLAR, Alexander 1
- Born: About 1815
- Marriage (1): Unknown
- Partnership (2): VALLELY, Rose Agnes
Another name for Alexander was MILLER, Alex.2
General Notes:
Alex Miller was a labourer by occupation according to the marriage certificate of his daughter Eliza Jane in 1862. 2
Alexander married.
Alexander had a relationship with Rose Agnes VALLELY, daughter of Charles Francis VALLELY and Bridget Agnes DUGAN. (Rose Agnes VALLELY was born on 27 Feb 1914 in Pratt City, Jefferson, Alabama, USA, died on 12 Feb 1990 and was buried in St.Michael's, Brookside, Jefferson, Alabama, USA.)
Marriage Notes:
HELEN WEBSTER AND THE WINTONS
The 1891 census recorded James Winton as a widower living at 187 Causewayside, Newington, Edinburgh. In 1892 his death certificate recorded him as single. This potential mystery, has been solved gradually itself as more information has been discovered.
The death certificate of Helen Webster in 1883 recorded her husband's name as James Winton and her father as Richard Webster; indeed her husband 'James Winton' was himself the informant of her death. 'James Winton' was also the name recorded as the father of Normina Winton in her marriage certificate in 1876.
No record has been found in the Old Parish Records, pre 1855, nor in the Statutory Records, post 1855, of a marriage between James Winton and Helen Webster. It is most unlikely that there is one.
A marriage between Robert Winton and Helen Webster has been found. It took place in St Cuthbert's parish in Edinburgh, on 14 July 1829. The record mentions that the bride's father was called Richard. Four children of the this couple are known: Helen, christened 6 May 1830 in St Cuthbert's parish Edinburgh; Alexander, christened 3 September 1833 at Kilmadock, Perth; Catharine christened 13 August 1837 in Dundee; and Elizabeth Robertson Winton, christened 16 February 1844 at St Cuthbert's Edinburgh.
The person called Helen Webster in both relationships is the same person. She was recorded with both men, and some of her children, in Cowpen, Northumberland, by the 1841 census. Between then and the 1851 census, Robert died. James, his brother, by the time of the taking of the census of 1851 was living with Helen Webster as man and wife, and had a daughter by her.
It would have been against Church law, and illegal by State law at that time, for James Winton and Helen Webster to marry. Both systems of law forbade people of their degree of kin or affinity to marry. Thus it was that James, though he had styled himself married and a widower in the course of his life, was recorded as single in his death certificate. In practical terms he was a widower. By the lthe letter of th law he was single.
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