Welcome, Guest. Please login or register for free.
Did you miss your activation email?
Thursday 26 November 09 18:39 UTC (UK)
Welcome Home Help Surnames Library Shop Search Login Register

+  RootsChat.Com
|-+  England (Counties as in 1851-1901)
| |-+  England - General
| | |-+  Warwickshire (Moderator: RootsChat)
| | | |-+  Divorces
« previous next »
Pages: [1] Print
Author Topic: Divorces  (Read 502 times)
alan w jones
RootsChat Member
***
Posts: 225


Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Divorces
« on: Sunday 13 July 08 14:28 UTC (UK) »
Hello ,
If I wanted to check whether a relative had been married and divorced at some stage where would I look please. Its a shot in the dark and I want to look for around 1923 -25 in Nuneaton or Coventry area .
Any help appreciated , thanks
Alan
Logged
Mean_genie
RootsChat Veteran
*****
Posts: 658


Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Re: Divorces
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 13 July 08 16:34 UTC (UK) »
Divorce files for that period should be in The National Archives, and you can search for them by name using the online Catalogue:

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/search.asp

Put the surname in the 'Word or phrase' box, and J77 in the 'Department or Series' box. You can specify the date range too, but you don't need to. If there is a divorce file it will then show up.

You will then either have to go to Kew to look at the file, or request an estimate for a copy, because these are original documents, but they are usually worth looking at. You will get more information that you would get from the Divorce Registry, who only supply copies of the Decrees Absolute and Nisi, and charge quite a lot for the search.

Mean_genie
Logged
alan w jones
RootsChat Member
***
Posts: 225


Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Re: Divorces
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 13 July 08 16:37 UTC (UK) »
Hello Genie,
Thank you very much for that, I will give it a go .
Many thanks
Alan
Logged
JustKia
RootsChat Aristocrat
******
Posts: 1084
Re: Divorces
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 24 July 08 22:03 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: Mean_genie on Sunday 13 July 08 16:34 UTC (UK)
Divorce files for that period should be in The National Archives, and you can search for them by name using the online Catalogue:

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/search.asp

Put the surname in the 'Word or phrase' box, and J77 in the 'Department or Series' box. You can specify the date range too, but you don't need to. If there is a divorce file it will then show up.

You will then either have to go to Kew to look at the file, or request an estimate for a copy, because these are original documents, but they are usually worth looking at. You will get more information that you would get from the Divorce Registry, who only supply copies of the Decrees Absolute and Nisi, and charge quite a lot for the search.

Mean_genie

Sorry to butt in on a post.
The information you provided in this was very welcome, however, I have people who I know for sure were divorced yet I can't find them using the method described here.
At least 2 (non related) people who were divorced were later married again (at least one of them in a church) so surely they must have had an official divorce as opposed to a separation?
Logged
MARLOW/JECOCK - Northamptonshire/Warwickshire : WIMBUSH/JUSTICE - Oxfordshire/Warwickshire : SCALES/BRIDGES/ENGLISH/JARMAN - Suffolk : GARRETT/GIBBS - Warwickshire : DEVOS - Scotland (Aberdeen)/France(Dunkerque) : MURRAY - Ireland(Down)/Scotland(Lochs) : TIGHE/TREACY - Cork

Stanley Charles SCALES b.1899 - Where are you?    ***     Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Mean_genie
RootsChat Veteran
*****
Posts: 658


Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Re: Divorces
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 24 July 08 22:32 UTC (UK) »
JustKia

Alan was looking for a divorce n the 1920s, and these records are likely to be in The National Archives, who hold the files from 1858 onwards, but from 1928 to 1937 they hold roughly 80%, and from 1938 onwards only a tiny number of files survive - about 10 to 20 a year at most. The only complete index to divorces is held by the Divorce Registry, but the indexes are not publicly avaailable, you have to pay them to search for you. It's not cheap!

So if the divorces you are interested in are more recent, that's why you can't find them (and if they were a very long time ago you'd be surprised how much bigamy went on!)

Mean_genie
Logged
JustKia
RootsChat Aristocrat
******
Posts: 1084
Re: Divorces
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 24 July 08 22:55 UTC (UK) »
Many thanks.
One was 1970's, the other 1923-25.
I'm sure I have many people who remarried in the 1800s without divorces Shocked
Logged
MARLOW/JECOCK - Northamptonshire/Warwickshire : WIMBUSH/JUSTICE - Oxfordshire/Warwickshire : SCALES/BRIDGES/ENGLISH/JARMAN - Suffolk : GARRETT/GIBBS - Warwickshire : DEVOS - Scotland (Aberdeen)/France(Dunkerque) : MURRAY - Ireland(Down)/Scotland(Lochs) : TIGHE/TREACY - Cork

Stanley Charles SCALES b.1899 - Where are you?    ***     Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
fish53
RootsChat Extra
**
Posts: 46


Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Re: Divorces
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 26 August 08 17:56 UTC (UK) »
Have recently asked for a search for divorce papers with the Divorce Registry.

It costs £40 for them to search a ten year period.
Use the on-line form D440. You need the names of both parties before they will be able to conduct the search.


Logged
Pages: [1] Print 
« previous next »


[Copyright] [Shrink Link] [About Us] [Terms of Use]
All Census Lookups are Crown Copyright, National Archives for academic and non-commercial research purposes only
RootsChat.com cannot be held responsible directly or indirectly for the messages or content posted by others. Inline images in messages are the copyright of the respective linked sites.
RootsChat.com, Europa House, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 5BT

In loving memory of Eric George Davies, 1934-2009, the father of RootsChat.com































Powered by SMF 1.0.7 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines LLC
0.051:18