Associates say he was single and did not have a common-law wife.
It didn't help me that I was a common-law wife for 18 years and had a child.
As his common-law wife, she has a right to a little protection.
His common-law wife was due to deliver their third child any day.
Josephine was his common-law wife for the next 46 years.
I had sense enough not to use my common-law wife for breeding.
Here he settled with his common-law wife and two sons.
She became his common-law wife and they had two children together.
There's been no such thing as a common-law wife since the 18th century.
He never married, but maintained a relationship with a common-law wife.