Marriage aboard a ship coming to NZ

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Member Since: December 2015 Posts: 19 Send Message	sheryl	Report	8 Apr 2016 01:05
Member Since: December 2015 Posts: 19 Send Message	Thanks SylviainCanada I know that Susan Jane emigrated to NZ in November 1873 - she was with my great grandfather and another young baby living as a married couple (although they didn't actually get married until 1904 in NZ) What I would like to find out is more about her family, where were they when she was in the workhouse? What happened to William John Perring (the baby she had in the workhouse) I haven't been able to find any record of him dying. He wasn't with them when they emigrated to NZ two years later. Did he die? was he brought up by some-one else? There was some kind of scandal with the relationship between Sarah Jane and Roger Bond Luscombe (my great-grandfather) with her being "beneath his station" Although as far as I can tell he was just from a respectable farming family - not gentry or anything like that. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Member Since: December 2015 Posts: 19 Send Message	sheryl	Report	8 Apr 2016 01:09
Member Since: December 2015 Posts: 19 Send Message	I don't know why they waited until they were 50 and 51 before they got married - there was no monetary reason and I haven't found any previous marriages preventing the marriage. My only thought is that they wanted to be married before they returned to Devon from NZ - in about 1911?