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Harriet Elizabeth KNIGHTAge: 65 years18281893

Name
Harriet Elizabeth KNIGHT
Given names
Harriet Elizabeth
Surname
KNIGHT
Birth about 1828 23 33
Christening 16 March 1828
Census 1841 (Age 13 years)

Note: Cromer Street, St Pancras, Middlesex, England
MarriageFrederick LOVELOCKView this family
8 August 1851 (Age 23 years)
Citation details: St Geo Han Sq RD, ref 1 21
Quality of data: primary evidence
Birth of a son
#1
Walter Frederick LOVELOCK
9 February 1853 (Age 25 years)
Citation details: Baptisms
Quality of data: primary evidence
Birth of a son
#2
Arthur Richard LOVELOCK
8 April 1854 (Age 26 years)

Citation details: Baptisms
Quality of data: primary evidence
Christening of a sonWalter Frederick LOVELOCK
4 June 1854 (Age 26 years)
Citation details: Baptisms
Quality of data: primary evidence
Christening of a sonArthur Richard LOVELOCK
4 June 1854 (Age 26 years)
Citation details: Baptisms
Quality of data: primary evidence
Death of a husbandFrederick LOVELOCK
14 November 1861 (Age 33 years)
Citation details: Pancras RD, ref 1b 64
Quality of data: primary evidence
Census 1861 (Age 33 years)

Note: 6 Wansford Place, Pancras, Middlesex, England
MarriageWilliam LOVELOCKView this family
8 March 1864 (Age 36 years)
Birth of a daughter
#3
Adele Harriette LOVELOCK
between July 1866 and September 1866 (Age 38 years)

Text:

Marylebone RD, ref 1a 415

Death of a daughterAdele Harriette LOVELOCK
between January 1871 and March 1871 (Age 43 years)

Text:

St Giles RD, ref 1b 397 (age 4)

Burial of a daughterAdele Harriette LOVELOCK
2 March 1871 (Age 43 years)
Census 1871 (Age 43 years)

Note: 38 Hart Street, St George Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England
Marriage of a childWalter Frederick LOVELOCKRose Eleanor STEWARTView this family
6 January 1884 (Age 56 years)
Source: GRO - FreeBMD
Citation details: Lambeth RD, ref 1d 426
Quality of data: primary evidence
Shared note: Spouse identified as Rose Eleanor Stewart by 1891 census record provided by Graham Lovelock
Census 1891 (Age 63 years)

Note: 82 Tunis Road, Hammersmith, London, England
Death between January 1893 and March 1893 (Age 65 years)

Text:

Fulham RD, ref 1a 172 (age 64)

Family with parents - View this family
father
mother
Marriage:
herself
Family with William LOVELOCK - View this family
husband
herself
Marriage: 8 March 1864St Margarets, Westminster, Middlesex, England
3 years
daughter
Family with Frederick LOVELOCK - View this family
husband
herself
Marriage: 8 August 1851St George Hanover Square RD, St George Hanover Square, Middlesex, England
18 months
son
14 months
son
William LOVELOCK + Alice FILMER - View this family
husband
husband’s wife
Marriage: 23 January 1877St Marylebone, London, England
9 months
step-son
22 months
step-son
George Frederick LOVELOCK
Birth: 24 August 1879 39 33Marylebone, Middlesex, England
Death: between January 1895 and March 1895
14 months
step-son
Harold LOVELOCK
Birth: 15 October 1880 41 35Marylebone, London, England
Death: between January 1906 and March 1906St Pancras RD, St Pancras, Middlesex, England
6 years
step-daughter
Madeline LOVELOCK
Birth: 6 July 1886 46 40Marylebone RD, Marylebone, Middlesex, England
Death: between January 1954 and March 1954

Birth1861 British Census
ChristeningData at Ancestry.co.uk
MarriageGeneral Record Office Index of Marriages
Citation details: St Geo Han Sq RD, ref 1 21
Quality of data: primary evidence
Marriage1861 British Census
MarriageGRO Copy of an Entry of Marriage
Census1861 British Census
MarriageGRO Copy of an Entry of Marriage
Census1871 British Census
DeathGeneral Record Office Index of Deaths
Text:

Fulham RD, ref 1a 172 (age 64)

SourceGraham Lovelock, Graham Lovelock - gedcom file Gedcom file for revised St Pancras (main) family tree, provided 16-Jan-08.
Census

Cromer Street, St Pancras, Middlesex, England HO107 682/12 F13 P20

Thomas Knight;36;Hair Dresser;not born in Middx Elizabeth Knight;46;;not born in Middx Henry Knight;15;Pawnbroker;born in Middx Harriet Knight;13;;born in Middx Richard Knight;11;;born in Middx

Census

6 Wansford Place, Pancras, Middlesex, England RG9 114  F77  P9

Frederick Lovelock;Head,;31;Oil and Colour Man;London, Middx Harriette Lovelock;Wife,;32;;London, Middx Walter Lovelock;Son,;8;;London, Middx Arthur Lovelock;Son,;6;;London, Middx Ellen Painter;Serv;19;House Serv;Black Barton, Oxon James W Little;Shop Boy;15;Shop Boy;Walworth, Surrey

Census

38 Hart Street, St George Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England RG10 340 F40 P12

William LOVELOCK;Head;31;Designer;St Margarets Harriett LOVELOCK;Wife;42;Designer of Fashion;St Pancras Walter F LOVELOCK;Son;18;Pawnbrokers Agent;St Pancras Arthur R LOVELOCK;Son;16;Booksellers Agent;St Pancras

Census

82 Tunis Road, Hammersmith, London, England RG12 42 F138 P38

Henry Emes;Head;51;Commission (sic) Traveller;London Clara Emes;Wife;51;;London Lilian Emes;Daur;21;Dressmaker;London Minnie Emes;Daur;17;Dressmaker;London Francis Emes;Son;12;;London Margaret Emes;Daur;8;;London Hilda Emes;Daur;6;;London Maud Hayward;Neice (sic);3;;London James Hutchens;Lodger, Widower;45;Government Messenger;India Harriet Lovelock;Lodger, Widow;63;No Occupation (sic);London

Shared note

On the Certificates of both of Harriette's marriages her father was named as Thomas Knight, a Hair Dresser.

Note

On 9 Oct 2022 Graham L wrote:

Harriet and Frederick's brother William were recorded as man and wife in the 1871 Census, which at the time was not true under the canon law then applying. In 1891 Harriet was recorded as a widow.

However, William was far from dead and had married Alice Filmer in 1877. He did not die until July 1896, Alice not until 1928. We had presumed that William and Harriet had discovered, or been advised, that their marriage was not valid and had gone their separate ways.

But then the marriage of a woman to her dead husband's brother was made legal in 1921 by the Deceased Brother's Widow's Marriage Act which extended the provisions of the 1907 Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act and validated all such previous marriages.

Fortunately Professor Rebecca Probert, whose book 'Marriage Law for Genealogists' is the source to consult, has advised that: 'the legislators responsible for creating the Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act, 1907 included an important qualification to the provision retrospectively validating such marriages, stating that 'Provided also that in case, before the passing of this Act, any such marriage shall have been annulled, or either party thereto (after the marriage and during the life of the other) shall have lawfully married another, it shall be deemed to have become and to be void upon and after the day upon which it was so annulled, or upon which either party thereto lawfully married another as aforesaid'.

So the marriage of William and Harriet was void at the time it was entered into, then retrospectively validated in 1921 - but only until William's marriage to Alice, from which point it was void.