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PostPosted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 8:41 pm 
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William Duerden aged 36 of Gt Marsden, a bachelor married Priscilla Smith aged 34 of Burwains in Briercliffe at St James in March 1860. The following note was in the parish records next to the marriage.

"Priscilla Smith is a false name; it should be Priscilla Duerden the marriage is ipso facto void. She having married her deceased husband's brother"

Until 1907 it was illegal for a man to marry his deceased wife's sister or until 1921 a woman to marry her deceased husband's brother.

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