Who Do You Think You Are?

BIG QUESTION

Did my great grandmother’s husband commit bigamy?

Q My great grandmother, Sarah Maskell, married Daniel James in Tudhoe, County Durham, in 1874. They had at least four children – Elijah Alexander, Charlotte Elizabeth, Ernest John and Thomas B – but separated in 1881–1882. Sarah then met my great grandfather William Lamb. Their first child, William Benjamin, was born in October 1884 in Kingswinford,

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