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Daniel F. Johnson : Volume 84 Number 426

Date July 9 1892
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Telegraph

info The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.

It appears that in the year 1871 a Miss Rebecca HICKS of Sackville was married to Michael CAHILL, a young man also of Sackville. For a few years their married life was quiet and uneventful except in the birth of one child - a boy, until the husband, who by profession followed the sea, decided to return to that occupation and did so. The birth of another son occurred three months after his departure. On leaving home, Mr. Cahill made over to his wife half his pay which she continued to receive for some time and it then stopped. Subsequently she heard that he had been drowned at sea and for seven years afterwards heard of nothing to the contrary. At the end of that time she again entered the bonds of matrimony with a George BETTS of Point de Bute. After being married three years he died leaving his widow with two other children, a boy and girl. Some time after her second marriage a rumor spread that her former husband was not dead, but was visiting Sackville. The report was not confirmed and being so indefinite and not hearing from him, she concluded that it was false. After the death of her second husband she removed to the States as a dressmaker, but subsequently returned to this country and finally settled down in Amherst where she has since resided. For over ten years until Tuesday last, nothing was ever again heard of him, he having then been away from home for 20 years. On that day she was indirectly informed that her first husband was at Dorchester, but no intimation as to his being there has been received by her from him. It is generally thought that he is alive, but is keeping away from Amherst. Mrs. Betts or Mrs. Cahill as the case may be is a dress maker in Amherst in good standing and highly respected.

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