There’s a reasonable chance that your ancestor’s family of origin was a “his, hers, and ours” family. Death of a spouse during their childbearing years was not all that unusual before 1900 and for economic or social reasons, a widow\/er with children frequently chose to marry again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That may have resulted in a family where some children were the husband’s by a first marriage, some children were the wife’s by a previous marriage, and some resulted from their marriage to each other. Sometimes records will make this clear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other times it will not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Keep yourself open to this possibility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And it’s also possible that there was a child that resulted from a relationship outside of a marriage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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