Neville marries at nineteen, separates at twenty (first marriage)
Neville recalled in a lecture that he was married at age nineteen and separated (but not yet divorced) at twenty, placing this first marriage around 1924-1925.
Person: Neville Goddard
Date (happened)
between 1924 and 1925
unresolved
between 1924 and 1925
stated · preferred
c. 1924
stated · probable
c. 1925
stated · probable
Source
age 20 + birth 1905 = 1925 (3 statements, told 1963-1964)
c. 1923
stated · probable
between 19 February 1924 and 18 February 1925
estimated · probable
Why
Minority telling (nid 1380, 1968) gives marriage age as eighteen instead of nineteen; not adopted here since the earliest, most independently-corroborated telling (nid 1112) and one other (nid 98) agree on nineteen.
Reasoning
Being 'nineteen' spans exactly one year, from one's 19th birthday to the day before the 20th; anchored to Neville's certain birth date (1905-02-19), that window is 1924-02-19 to 1925-02-18. This refines the existing preferred claim d2 (stated/certain, between 1924 and 1925 at year-only precision) by isolating the marriage sub-event to its correct one-year window. Held to probable rather than certain because a decades-later age recollection is an estimate, and because two sibling tellings (nid 98, 1964; nid 1380, 1968) give the marriage age as eighteen instead of nineteen - a discrepancy this claim does not resolve but narrows within the majority (2 of 3 tellings) reading.
between 19 February 1925 and 18 February 1926
estimated · probable
Why
Minority telling (nid 1380, 1968) gives separation age as nineteen instead of twenty; not adopted here since two of three tellings (nid 1112, nid 98) agree on twenty.
Reasoning
Being 'twenty' spans one year from the 20th birthday to the day before the 21st; anchored to the certain 1905-02-19 birth date, that window is 1925-02-19 to 1926-02-18. This refines the same existing d2 between-claim for the separation sub-event specifically. Held to probable for the same reasons as the paired marriage claim: a decades-later age recollection, and a sibling telling (nid 1380, 1968) that instead gives 'separated at nineteen'.
before 14 November 1963
bound
Reasoning
P530590 is retrospective personal testimony; the event had occurred before lecture nid 1112's delivery date. Non-preferred bound only.
c. 1923
stated · probable
Show all 12 claims
between 1923 and 1925
estimated · probable
Why
Age-derived span; direct tellings disagree by one year on separation.
Reasoning
This composite event spans three milestones rather than one instant. Applying the stated ages to Neville's 1905 birth gives marriage around 1923, fatherhood around 1924, and separation around 1924 or 1925 because the two direct tellings disagree between ages nineteen and twenty. The honest envelope is therefore 1923 through 1925 at probable confidence.
before 9 January 1964
bound
Reasoning
Neville explicitly says 'in my own case' and recounts marriage, fatherhood, and separation as completed events, so they necessarily predate the lecture's certain 1964-01-09 delivery.
between 13 October 1923 and 18 February 1926
estimated · probable
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 005)
Reasoning
Passage 528248: married at 18, father at 19, separated at 20; born 19 Feb 1905. The corpus dates the marriage to Mildred Mary Hughes on 1923-10-13 (953) and Joseph's birth on 1924-05-19 (735); at twenty means 1925-02-19 to 1926-02-18, and he was still living with Mildred and Joseph on 1925-01-01 (20227).
between 1923 and 1925
stated
Told / reported
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9 January 1964
estimated
Reasoning
The passage tells these life events in the certainly dated carrier. || v1.1 type repair: written as `stated` by run v1.1/l4/actor425/5000-5999-b1, retyped `estimated` — the claim cites node 1033, not a passage, so it is this lane's inference rather than something Neville said in so many words (#2117).
30 January 1969
stated · refuted
Sources
Source
- Neville Goddard Research Neville Amerique Broadway Shows And Theaters ¶8 (I was married at the age of nineteen, separated at twenty but not divorced.)
- The Law of Liberty ¶31 ("separated at twenty" (lecture, 1964))
- He Is Meditating Me / The Rock ¶35 ("twenty" (lecture, 1963))
- The One Greater Than John ¶12 ("separated at twenty" (lecture, 1964))
- He Is Meditating Me / The Rock ¶35 (I was married at the age of nineteen, separated at twenty but not divorced. In the meanwhile, I became a dancer and everyone who knew us as a dance team thought that if I ever got a divorce, or my wife got a divorce, surely my dancing partner and myself …)
- The Law of Liberty ¶31 (I was married at the age of eighteen, father at nineteen, separated at twenty, and then for the next fifteen years we lived our separate lives and only saw each other when she dragged me into court for nonpayment of alimony.)
- The Law of Liberty ¶31 ("father at nineteen" (lecture, 1964))
- He Is Meditating Me / The Rock ¶35 ("age of nineteen" (lecture, 1963))
- The One Greater Than John ¶12 ("father at nineteen" (lecture, 1964))
- Brazen Impudence ¶6 ("separated at nineteen" (lecture, 1968))
- Brazen Impudence ¶6 ("father at nineteen" (lecture, 1968))
- Brazen Impudence ¶6 (I was terribly involved: I was married at the age of eighteen, I was a father at nineteen, and separated at nineteen, but never sought a divorce, just separation, and it was not a legal separation.)
- The One Greater Than John ¶12
- The One Greater Than John ¶12 (My Father, the depths of my own being, moving me through all these furnaces, put me into a state where I was married at the age of eighteen, father at nineteen, separated at twenty. And then I became so disillusioned with marriage, I vowed I would have n…)