[Bell Historians] Re: Benjamin Annable

[Anne Willis]

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Sent: 16 September 2010 15:25
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Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] Re: Benjamin Annable

  
Richard Smith wrote:

>However, a married Benjamin Annable also crops up earlier. 
>Three daughters were baptised to a Benjamin and Elizabeth 
>Annable at St Katharine by the Tower: Elizabeth (16 Feb 
>1723), Isabella (15 June 1725, died 5 days later) and 
>Elizabeth [the previous one having presumably died] (10 Jul 
>1726).

>I think the only sensible explanations are: (i) there was a 
>third Benjamin Annable, in addition to the ringer and his 
>father and son; (ii) the ringer married at three times. (We 
>could suggest (iii), that the ringer's parents divorced or 
>had their marriage annulled, but that was probably beyond 
>their means. And (iv), that both the ringer's parents 
>remarried bigamously, seems too improbable.)


The earlier married Benjamin Annable could have been a cousin to the ringing
Benjamin.

It would not have been unusual in the 18th century for a man to re-marry
within a short time of his wife's death.  Someone would have been needed as
a mother for the family and to run the household.


Anne