Shortest time between marriages.
 

Just found this. He didn't waste much time!

14 July 1856 Bolton St Peter
James Holden x full widower fishmonger of Great Bolton
to
Mary Smith X full widow of Great Bolton
GF; (illegitimate)
BF:John Moscrop

THEN

30 October 1857 Bolton St Peter
James Holden X full widower Fishmonger of Great Bolton
to
Ann Berry X full widow of Great Bolton
GF: James Holden
BF: John Ainsworth.

I make that a total of 471 days between marriages! Anyone beat that?

OC

Can't beat that OC, my 3x great grandmother married her first husband 6 May 1869, he died 30 Dec 1869 & she then married my 3x great grandfather 12 Nov 1870.

When did Mary Smith die?

He was a widower when he married Mary Smith. How long had he been a widower when he married her?

I'm always very impressed with my many times great grandmother Sarah Crossley whose first husband was buried on 4th Nov 1736 in St Dunstan Stepney, in which same church she remarried on New Year's Eve 1736 to her second husband - after banns.

edit - sorry just realised that's not really what you were asking :-)

Asa

No, but it's an extension of the same question. I reckon yours is the winner of the shortest gap between death and remarriage!

OC

Well I have Caroline Ruth Dowsett marrying Clarence Thomas Platt on 8th August 1918, and then marrying Henry William Wicks on 26th December 1918.

Not sure that really counts, though!:d

lol Joan!

I don't think I have any particularly close marriages in my tree. I have five for one person, but that's my only record.

This one doesn't beat any of the others quoted but always struck me as being particularly cynical!

Charles Butcher marries Sarah Byford Jun 1843. Sarah dies in 1844 and in Oct 1845 he marries her sister, Mary....

Marrying your deceased wife's sister was quite common, although I don't think it was actually legal at the time.

My Great granduncle
Alfred Lesley Stanley Leigh married Selina Laws in 1873 She died 2 March 1879. Died in childbirth. June 30 1879 married Elizabeth Anderson nee Mills. Cannot find a death for her but on 1 August 1880 he married Emily Rattledge.
She died 25 Nov 1896, but in the meantime ALS Leighs had bigamously married Elizabeth Holt 8 Nov 1888. In fact, all these marriages were bigamous because he was still married to Phoebe Paxton who he wed on 20 Oct 1861.
Vicwinann