Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a husband separated from or deserted by his wife.

1705		J. Dunton Life and Errors (1818) I 405: If my marrying a fortune has made me a scoundrel, [...] it is but while I continue a Widower bewitched.
1840		Staffs. Gaz. 25 Apr. 2/7: I have been a widower betwitched. I am a lone old man.
1850		Leamington Spa Courier 26 Oct. 4/3: Poor Adam felt the separation very much [...] Lilith knew this; so [...] she offered the bewitched widower her companionship.
1862		Leeds Times 27 Sept. 6/4: ‘Perhaps you are a widower?’ ‘Yes, ma’am‘ (bewitched, I said aside).
1896		Huddersfield Chron. 19 Sept. 7/6: Plaintiff said he lived alone. He was not a widower but a ‘widow [sic] bewitched,’ his wife having left him.