Francis-Tivey-and-Lucretia-Brown-Marriage-Certificate
Francis Tivey was born in Birmingham in 1838, the son of Isaac Tivey and his wife Phobe Morris of Group 20. In 1863 he married Lucretia Brown, the daughter of Mary Elizabeth Flamell and Farmer Thomas Brown. By 1873 Francis and Leititia had 7 children, it was at this point (it is believed) that Francis began an affair with a woman named Mary Ann Palmer; around 1877 Francis left Lucretia entirely and lived as man and wife with Mary Ann, they resideed in Wolverhampton, Sheffield and Manchester - a newspaper report suggets that he had failed to pay his estranged wife child care and had abandoned his repsosibilities as a father. The local police and magistrates found him in Manchester in 1880 and ordered him before the court where he was jailed for one month with hard labour for neglecting his family, it wasnt the first time he had reportedley been before the bench for neglect. After his release, Mary Ann and Francis fled to the USA with their 3 children, a further 2 children of the couple were born in Connecticut USA. Lucretia died in 1919 in Walton on Thames Surrey, she worked as a seamstress all her life to support her family after Francis absconded.
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