WIDOW WEDS STEPSON.
TRIP TO NEW YORK
The marriage of a 55 year-old Englishwoman, Mrs. Elizabeth Jane King, to her stepson, Mr. Herbert George Kins, aged 35, is reported from New York. My husband wanted it," was the undo s explanation of tbo marriage. Mrs. King is Iho owner of a brewery at Syresham, Northamptonshire. Her son, who is managing Ihu brewery, said that his mother unci her stop-son, left Syresham for New York about a week previously. "Since then I ha.o heaid nothing from them except a message saying they had landed. motbei is coming back in six weeks. Mr. King added that his father died in 1916. " Such a union would be illegal in this country," it was stated at the office of the Registrar-General, Somerset House. " A woman may not marry her stepson, nor a man bis step-daughter. But a man may ma.rry his step-mother s daughter by her former husband.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20560, 10 May 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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154WIDOW WEDS STEPSON. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20560, 10 May 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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