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minimaiden2710
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Divorce Records **COMPLETED**
« on: Wednesday 03 October 07 05:30 BST (UK) »
Hi
Does anyone know if there are divorce records available for the late 1800's.
I am wanting to find out if my G G Grandmother actually got divorced before she remarried.
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Sarah Huh
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Durham - Burnett
Cumbria (Carlisle) - Burnett, Grubb, Cook, Gash,
Berkshire - Grubb
S Yorkshire - Tew
Derbyshire-Stoppard,Hallows/Hallas,Chadwick,Dunk(s), Jones, Wolstenholme, Armstrong
Sussex - Smith
N. Yorks - Mewburn, Tew
Oxfordshire - Mewburn, Grubb
Warwickshire - Tew
Hampshire - Bailey
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Re: Divorce Records
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 03 October 07 17:07 BST (UK) »
 
 
Hi Sarah

http://www.findmypast.com/welcome.jsp has "Divorces and Matrimonial Causes 1858 - 1903" available to search.

I have not actually tried to search in that section so I cannot tell you how effective it is.

If you wish to provide the names, either on screen or by PM, I will have a look for you.

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Re: Divorce Records
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 03 October 07 19:57 BST (UK) »
What status did she give on her second marriage. If divorced she should have stated so. Divorce until after the First World War when legal aid was available was an expensive business and beyond the reach of most working class families. Besides the legal fees there was all the effort to get to London as pre 1922 divorce could only be heard in the high court there.

The National Archives research guide on divorce records is here

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=53

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Re: Divorce Records
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 04 October 07 05:29 BST (UK) »
Hi To you both
Thanks for your replies.  At the moment I am awaiting the marriage certificate of Agnes Wolstenholme to William Armstong 2Q 1897 (Place of marriage Chesterfield).  This would have been her second marriage.  Her first marriage was to Samuel Wolstenholme (Barton upon Irwell, Lancashire).  He is still alive on the 1901 census and is living with his brother.I'm pretty sure they weren't a rich family so like you say divorce would have been a costly business and I don't think would have been an option. 
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Durham - Burnett
Cumbria (Carlisle) - Burnett, Grubb, Cook, Gash,
Berkshire - Grubb
S Yorkshire - Tew
Derbyshire-Stoppard,Hallows/Hallas,Chadwick,Dunk(s), Jones, Wolstenholme, Armstrong
Sussex - Smith
N. Yorks - Mewburn, Tew
Oxfordshire - Mewburn, Grubb
Warwickshire - Tew
Hampshire - Bailey
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« Reply #4 on: Thursday 04 October 07 18:30 BST (UK) »
With divorce not an option for many people because of cost and pre 1857 only obtainable by Act of Parliament, peoples choices were more limited
stay together
judicial separation (which meant you couldn't legally remarry)
live with someone else as a married couple
bigamously marry

A suprising (for us today at least) took the last option with often the full knowledge of their families - I even have a bigamous marriage where the spouse was a metropolitan policeman (the metropolitan police force would not have sanctioned an officer living with a woman, so they married. She had been deserted by her husband. Even if she could have afforded to divorce her husband she would have needed to prove desertion and adultery and since she didn't know where her first husband was she couldn't prove adultery).

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Re: Divorce Records
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 04 October 07 19:03 BST (UK) »
Hi Valda
Yes it is increasingly looking as though we have a bigamist here.  The other thing which is strange is the fact that we cannot find the birth of an Annie Wolstenholme matching the census.  Mum thought that maybe it could be either Louisa (her daughter with Samuel) although there would have been a few years difference in the age or even another illigitimate child (she had an illigitimate child in 1881).  This is getting very interesting.
Thanks for your input.
Sarah Shocked
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Durham - Burnett
Cumbria (Carlisle) - Burnett, Grubb, Cook, Gash,
Berkshire - Grubb
S Yorkshire - Tew
Derbyshire-Stoppard,Hallows/Hallas,Chadwick,Dunk(s), Jones, Wolstenholme, Armstrong
Sussex - Smith
N. Yorks - Mewburn, Tew
Oxfordshire - Mewburn, Grubb
Warwickshire - Tew
Hampshire - Bailey
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