Dual Marriage Question

[Joseph Puentes <makas@...>]

hi Alicia,

merry christmas. . .

Alicia Carrillo wrote:

> Sylvia,
>  
> Great history and summary.
>  
> My family also hails from Teocaltiche, the Olmos, Ruiz Esparza, 
> Avelar, Aguayo and Gomez lines. Still trying to decipher some of the 
> family lines.  The GGG, abuelo Prudencio Olmos creatied some 
> interesting family ties in that he had two sets of wives and families 
> and appeared to be married at the same time to both women. The first 
> wife and family should have inherited the wealth but it was just the 
> opposite. Needles to say this created much dissention within the 
> families. Through the years I would hear comments such as "son de los 
> otros Olmos", meaning that it wasn't the same Olmos family. I'm still 
> working on this and need more verification that they were the same 
> family. I'm thinking that the reason he could pull this off was 
> because Prudencio married in different states, first wife in 
> Nochistlan  Zacatecas and second wife in Teocaltiche Jalisco. Does 
> anyone know of other instances of dual marriages of one male and 
> married in the church?
Are you sure that Prudencio was married to both women at the same time?. 
. .I used to think that with some of my lines until I carefully lined 
all the children up and found that the last one from the first wife was 
born before the first one from the second wife with enough time in 
between for it to have been a remarriage. then once when I was 
absolutely sure my GGG grandfather was married to two women at the same 
time it turned out he was a twin and his twin had the same exact name as 
well (see attached baptism record). Well I guess i'm not much help but 
what the priests were suppose to do when someone from another parish 
came to be married in the church they were suppose to contact that 
parish to make sure they were in good standing. [Note: Can anyone else 
confirm what I just said. I am pretty sure I read that some place maybe 
in George Ryskamp's Book].
>  
> My father who died 3 years ago retired to Teocaltiche Jalisco but I 
> did not have much contact with him. He re-married and left the USA in 
> the mid 1970's and moved to Teocaltiche. I've since heard that he did 
> a lot of Genealogical research but did not record anything, he took it 
> with him recorded in his mind and only what he shared verbally to 
> nieces and nephews who lived in the area.
>  
Sounds like you need to get busy and record that verbal history before 
the nieces and nephews forget what your dad told them.
joseph