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    Did John Board really marry four times?

    May 02, 2023 2 minutes

    My Somerset ancestor, John Board, appears to have married four times – twice bigamously. He married Rebecca Moore in 1777 in Buckland St Mary (but I can find no death for her); Prudence Channing in 1781 in Staple Fitzpaine (buried 1794 in Trull); Mary Dare in 1796 in Trull; and Sarah Garrat in Trull in 1809 (I couldn’t find a burial record for

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