Charles Robinson 'Remarries'

Resuming his career in Docklands, Charles Robinson must have somehow come into contact with one or other of the Wombwell clan. 

George Wombwell would certainly have hired agents in the shipping community to locate wildlife specimens, and perhaps Charles was prepared to conduct some discreet freelancing on his behalf. Or he may have more simply been purchasing goods from Richard Wombwell’s chandler’s and grocer's shop. In either case, acting on the basis that Mary Weston was either dead or at least by rights should be bloody well dead, he thought it reasonable, regardless of legal niceties, to remarry, and to pronounce himself officially as a 'widower'. 

The Great-grandparents of Hetty Jane Owen. Note the alternate spelling ‘Robenson’ that the family sometimes used at this time, and the presence of Harriett’s elder sister, Sophia Wombwell.

And so, on the 25th of February, 1824, with both Sophia Wombwell and Richard Wombwell as witnesses, he married Harriett Wombwell at St. Mary Abchurch, just off Cannon Street. It may be assumed that Maria West, Harriett's mother was also in attendance.