Tag: William Whitlow

Posted on November 10, 2015August 28, 2016

William Whitlow’s Wife: Did he Love Her Too Much?

William Whitlow loved his wife, and she loved him. Others knew it too; fellow soldiers in the 44th Regiment of Foot, in which Whitlow was a private soldier, said that “there was not a happier Couple in the Regiment.” By September of 1779 they had a child together, and all must have seemed right in […]

by Don N. Hagist

Posted on November 11, 2013August 28, 2016

Top 10 Marriages Gone Bad

Every now and then I meet someone who thinks that people “back then” were all highly religious and led straight-laced, pious lives. Those people haven’t read newspapers of the era. Legal notices appeared frequently in which husbands and wives absolved themselves of responsibility for the debts and dissipations of spouses who’d abandoned them. Sometimes competing […]

by Don N. Hagist