Spouse in 'clink'

[Colin Rowledge]

Karl was married in Redruth in 1896 (see FreeBMD) so whatever/wherever his crime, it was after 1896

Hope this helps?
regards,
SueL

Thanks, Sue. Tomorrow, Good Lord willing, his marriage certificate will arrive.

All I can think of, is that it was something 'serious' as, both he, his father [Karl Oskar] and their families were not around in 1911. Did they go back to Norway, which is where his father [Karl Oskar] was born?

[ET in the USA]

Colin,
Are you sure they are from Norway ? On AN** .uk there are a number of, Death I think, entries for Karl Hugo & Karl Oskar Ahlstedt from Sweden & in Swedish too it looks like. Perhaps someone can look them up for you if Sweden is a possibility. I am going to the library tomorrow, but not sure if Swedish info. is on the US library edition. Do you still need Harold Ball arrival info ? I think the library has sorted out their advanced reader problems.

Elaine

[Colin Rowledge]

Colin,
Are you sure they are from Norway ? On AN** .uk there are a number of, Death I think, entries for Karl Hugo & Karl Oskar Ahlstedt from Sweden & in Swedish too it looks like. Perhaps someone can look them up for you if Sweden is a possibility. I am going to the library tomorrow, but not sure if Swedish info. is on the US library edition. Do you still need Harold Ball arrival info ? I think the library has sorted out their advanced reader problems.

Elaine

Hi Elaine
Thanks for the tip on AN. I have membership for World-wide and will do lookups.

You may well be right about Sweden - I suspected that it was one of the Scandinavian countries. I believe Karl Oskar [the father of Karl Hugo] was from there and married in England in 1873. Karl Hugo [his son] was born in Phillack, Cornwall in 1874 and by 1881 his mother was a widow. Possibly Karl Oskar died in England but is buried in Sweden.
Am awiting their marriage certificates.

Re: Harold A. Ball - I have unearthed some info [but not much] so anything you can provide [even if duplicated] would be most welcome.

Cheers
Colin

[Colin Rowledge]

Will post additional Ahlstedt info on that thread

[Colin Rowledge]

Thanks, Sue. Tomorrow, Good Lord willing, his marriage certificate will arrive.

All I can think of, is that it was something 'serious' as, both he, his father [Karl Oskar] and their families were not around in 1911. Did they go back to Norway, which is where his father [Karl Oskar] was born?

Not sure that the family did go back to Norway [or possibly Sweden as noted by E.T. in USA]

It has been brought to my attention, that, what Karl Hugo did was enter into a bigamous marriage in December 1898 in Pontypridd, Wales. He was sentenced to 12 months Hard Labour at Bodmin Assizes in June 1900.

I feel sorry for the 'poor' girl he 'married' as she was probably a mum by that time.

Colin

[Colin Rowledge]

Not sure that the family did go back to Norway [or possibly Sweden as noted by E.T. in USA]

It has been brought to my attention, that, what Karl Hugo did was enter into a bigamous marriage in December 1898 in Pontypridd, Wales. He was sentenced to 12 months Hard Labour at Bodmin Assizes in June 1900.

I feel sorry for the 'poor' girl he 'married' as she was probably a mum by that time.

Colin

Having been advised that Karl Hugo did as stated in the quote, he was convicted and sentenced at the Bodmin Assizes in June 1900. I was given this information almost 2 years ago, but with my flood loss in June, the Ahlstedt file was destroyed.

I am slowly rebuilding this file, but cannot remember where the details of this conviction and sentence came from. Can anyone assist me?

Thanks

[Kerrywood]

There's a short piece about the hearing in the Royal Cornwall Gazette of 21 June 1900.

If you PM me an email address I'll send it to you.

[Colin Rowledge]

There's a short piece about the hearing in the Royal Cornwall Gazette of 21 June 1900.

If you PM me an email address I'll send it to you.

Thanks Kerrywood, will do.

[Colin Rowledge]

There's a short piece about the hearing in the Royal Cornwall Gazette of 21 June 1900.

The article was most informative. Certainly in his defence he was "grasping at straws".

What I did find interesting as well, was after his release in 1901 [June] he and Anne [his mistreated spouse] accepted him back. He became a Tin Miner and was living in Redruth. A son was born in 1902 [2nd q.] and was named William Henry. A daughter followed - Annie Jane - born 2nd q. 1903 but she died 3rd q. 1904.

Anne died in the 1st q, 1912 aged just 39

[Colin Rowledge]

And now the epilogue.

After the death of Anne, he married again [legally this time]. Her name was Eliza J. Harris. They married 2nd q. 1913. He was aged 40 and Eliza was 42. I have not found any children. He died 3rd. q. 1936 in Redruth and Eliza died 1st q. 1949. He was aged 62 at death and she was 78.