Were the "virgin births" in Cornwall or the US? Just curious.
I've found found one that might be like that, no husband in the house in the 1870 census, just grandmother, mother, and daughter, and the daughter has a different last name, but it's in New Orleans shortly after the Civil War, so the dad might have died in the war or an epidemic. Wouldn't explain the different last names (Muller and Ritter), unless that's a cultural thing, grandmother from Bavaria, but I doubt it.
Aside from that, the most unusual thing I've found is a Jewish great-great-great-great-grandfather who may have divorced (or maybe not) my great-great-great-great-grandmother, a French refugee from Haiti who was rumored to be part black, before he married a nice Jewish girl from Richmond. The fight between the heirs was litigated in three states and went all the way to the US Supreme Court. Jewell vs. Jewell, 42 U.S. 219 (1843).
The great-great-great-great-grandfather supposedly died on a packet ship and was buried at sea, but I suspect he decided to move on, as bigamists often do. |
