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I have two certified copies of marriage certificates for Emmiline and Henry Albert Solomon.
The 1901 marriage certificate:-
27th January 1901; Emmiline May Tourell, age 19, spinster, of 7 Sylvan Road, daughter of William Richard Tourell, jeweller; to Henry Albert Solomon, age 21, bachelor, clerk, of 14 Westbury Road, son of Joseph Solomon, deceased, publican; at Emmanuel Church, Forest Gate. Witnesses: Joan Tourell and William Hare.
The 1902 marriage certificate:-
31st March 1902; Emmiline May Tourell, age 20, spinster, of 86 Leman Street, daughter of William Tourell, Manager of Boys` Home; to Henry Albert Solomon, age 21, bachelor, Publican, of 10 Royal Mint Street, son of Joseph Solomon, Publican; at St. Jude`s Church, Whitechapel. Witnesses: William Tourell and William Rump.
The 1901 marriage took place before the 1901 census which shows Henry Albert Solomon as still single, and his father still alive. (Unfortunately, the 1911 census offers the only Henry Albert Solomon as single, born in Cornwall.)
The 1901 census also includes a May Tourell of the right age; she should not be there if the 1901 marriage had already occurred - and assuming Emmiline preferred her second forename. The Emmiline of the 1901 marriage does not admit to being a schoolteacher - but neither does the 1902 version; in 1901 she describes her father as a jeweller with the same name as that normally associated with her eldest brother (who would only have been 14, and did not marry until several years after her own birth); and her address does not match the census.
The complications (a search for the witnesses, deaths of fathers, addresses of all concerned ) have become too many to sort out further for the time being. but the 1901 marriage version has so many anomalies that I am taking the 1902 version as the correct one.
Any suggestions that may help to explain this mystery will be very welcome.
February 2014
Stephen Carpenter has provided some more information on Emmaline May Tourell.
According to his mother (grand daughter of Martha Tourell and John Harris)
Emmaline (known as May) became pregnant with a coachman with a club foot
- an ex boy at the Institution run by her father William Tourell - and was packed off
to a relative in New Zealand, where she married Henry Vernon and had at least two children.
One of them - Trixie - had 4 children (one called Vernon.)
May died in an earthquake in the 1920s.
Stephen added that this was a family story and had not been verified.
He has suggested that the first marriage is correct and Emmaline married the Coachman
in London, but Henry Solomon changed his name to Vernon and Emmaline's older brother
had to put his name as father, as William senior would have nothing to do with it
because of the scandal.
Stephen adds "Sounds a bit far fetched but you never know!"
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