From: nemonews@hotmail.co.uk   
      
   Can anyone explain the meaning of the phrase "Single and Unmarried" in   
   the "Condition" column of a Marriage Register entry.  I am presuming   
   there has been some actual act of "un-marrying".  Having never come   
   across this before, I have now found it twice under the following   
   circumstances.   
      
   William Joseph John Hawkins and Radigen Selina Rains Randall were   
   married on 08 May 1856 at Holy Trinity Church in Hoxton.  They were   
   Bachelor and Spinster and she was stated to be 18 but might have been   
   only 17.  The Banns were called twice, but they married by Licence a few   
   days before the third calling would have taken place.   
      
   On 17 September 1857 William married Amelia Saunders after Banns at St   
   Marylebone and he was stated to be a Bachelor.   
      
   On 11 December 1867 Radigen married Alfred Algernon Hartley in West   
   Lulworth, Dorset.  She was then described as "Single & Unmarried."   
      
   On 24 May 1868, at St Stephen's Paddington, William and Amelia were   
   married again.  This time he was described as "Single and unmarried" and   
   Amelia as "Spinster."   
      
   Assuming the first marriages were dissolved in some way, is it likely   
   there would be any records to be found now?   
      
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   Jenny M Benson   
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