Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2022 August 16

= August 16 =

Specific issues I want to find for the Template:Adjacent stations system
I want to know if there are examples, in rail systems where each station has or is expected to have an article: Animal lover &#124;666&#124; 11:25, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) A system with numbered lines, which has 2 lines distinguished only by leading 0's (e.g lines 6 and 06 in the same system)
 * 2) A system, line or station with a backslash in its name.


 * Animal lover, unless anyone else here can answer, you might be a lot better off asking at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains where you will find editors who are well-versed in the peculiarities of railway articles. Alansplodge (talk) 12:45, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

Marrying a widow in England
In 1950 a woman got married in a registry office in England and her marriage certificate stated she was a widow. The General Register Office states that a widow wanting to get married had to produce the death certificate of her first husband or some other documentary evidence. In fact this woman's first husband was still alive and was living in France, and so she could not have produced a death certificate. My question is what is included in this "other documentary evidence". The General Register Office now longer has the documents to answer what documentary evidence she produced. Thank you. Simonschaim (talk) 11:32, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Where did you hear or read about this event? If you can direct us to where you are reading this, it may help someone find some useful information for you.  -- Jayron 32 11:56, 16 August 2022 (UTC)


 * See Presumption of death. The process was tightened-up by the Presumption of Death Act 2013, but before that you could swear before a civil court that a missing person was dead if "there was no evidence that they were still alive" and "the people most likely to have heard from them had no contact" and "inquiries made of that person had no success". In your example, the woman may have genuinely believed that her husband was dead, or she may have been exploiting a rather lax system, an example of which was the notorious "Canoe Man" case of 2007. Note that tracing someone who had gone abroad would have been well-nigh impossible before the internet, even if you knew which country to search in. Alansplodge (talk) 12:34, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your answers which I found to be very helpful. Simonschaim (talk) 08:53, 22 August 2022 (UTC)