... establish the marriage’;195 in this case the fact that the parents had lived in Jamaica as well as in London illustrates the potential problem of proving such a marriage. In another case the latest ... i.e., sham – marriage? Add to this the fact that manysynonyms for marriage, past and present, invoke the idea of a leapof some kind,110 and one can begin to understand how the phrasemay have ... father’sname;175similarly, in 1742 the godfather of John Bell gave evidencethat the child’s parents ‘lived and cohabited together as man and wife’ but added that ‘[he] cannot say that the said Sarah Bell,alias Morgan,...