Celia Willmott [35843]

Celia married David Beattie [35842] [MRIN: 13652], son of David Beattie [35844] and Margaret [35845], in 1863 in Cooma District, New South Wales. (David Beattie [35842] was born about 1815 and died in 1867 in Goulburn District, New South Wales.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Registration: Marriage, 1864, Cooma District, New South Wales. ¹ 1791/1863
BEATTIE, DAVID
GRANT, CELIA
COOMA

• Newspaper: QUARTER SESSIONS, SOUTHERN DISTRICT. GOULBURN, 1865 Jan 26, Sydney District, New South Wales. ² QUARTER SESSIONS, SOUTHERN DISTRICT. GOULBURN. (1865, January 26). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 -1954), p. 8. Retrieved January 10, 2012, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13110764>
David Beattie, a man about fifty years of age, charged with bigamy in having married one Celia Grant, in Novem-ber, 1863, at Cooma, while Mary Christie, whom he had married in June, 1859, was still alive, \emdash pleaded not guilty. The Crown called Celia Grant, who stated that she did not remember having been married to prisoner ; she might have been, but all she knew was that she had lived with him ; did not know when she was at Cooma with him ; did not know how old she was then, nor how old she was when she arrived in the colony, nor how long she had been in the colony ; thought sixteen years ; that her maiden name was Willmott ; had been married to a man named Grant (who died) for twenty-one years be-fore she lived with prisoner ; had lived with prisoner for two years ; was then living with him ; had no recollection whatever of having been married to prisoner ; could not say whether she was a drunkard ; might have been drunk at the time now referred to as that at which she went before the Registrar at Cooma, but had no recollection of having gone before the Registrar or of having been drunk ; all she knew was that she lived with prisoner, and did not care whether she was married to him or not. The certificate of the marriage in question was proved. Prisoner stated that his first wife Mary had run away from him eight months after his marriage with her, and had married another man, by whom she had two children, and with whom she was still living ; that he had not ill-used her, but she had been influenced by her mother, who had always opposed her marriage to him. The fact of the first wife having left him, and of her mar-riage as stated was corroborated. Sentence, two months imprisonment in Goulburn goal.

Celia next married Grant [35846] [MRIN: 13654]. (Grant [35846] was born before 1848.)