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carroll69
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Divorce Records
« on: Sunday 18 October 09 14:19 UTC (UK) »
I'm looking for help with a possible divorce or desertion!

Mary Lizzie Maltby, my gt grandmother's first marriage was to William Chapman.  They were married on 3 Aug 1903, she was 17 and living in North Row, Pelton Fell, Chester-le-Street, he was 22 and according to the certificate living in Newfield, Chester-le-Street, his father is listed as a deceased farmer, Alexander Chapman.
This is the only information I have on him, I can't find anything. Mary was pregnant at the time of her marriage with son Theophilus Chapman
I know that Mary re-married George Randall Moore on 14 Apr 1913.
She has another two sons before her 2nd marriage Stanley Maltby/Moore and Nicholas Moore.  She is listed as a widow on her 2nd marriage certificate but I cannot find any record of William Chapman's death.  Rumour in the family is that he ran off and left her!  Would she have to have waited 7 years to re-marry?

Any ideas on this would be appreciated  Grin
Anita
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stanmapstone
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Re: Divorce Records
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 18 October 09 14:26 UTC (UK) »
The defence against a charge of bigamy is that the accused's spouse has been absent for at least seven years, and is therefore presumed by the accused to be dead.
Section 22 of the 1828 Act and Section 57 of the 1861 Act states:
".......Provided, that nothing in this section contained shall extend to any second marriage contracted elsewhere than in England and Ireland by any other than a subject of Her Majesty, or to any person marrying a second time whose husband or wife shall have been continually absent from such person for the space of seven years then last past, and shall not have been known by such person to be living within that time,"
Stan
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Re: Divorce Records
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 18 October 09 14:50 UTC (UK) »
Many thanks Stan,

Mary Lizzie had a son Stanley Maltby on 24 June 1908, on his birth certificate she lists her name as Mary Lizzie Maltby and 14 years later has the certificate officially corrected to show that her name should have been Chapman otherwise Maltby and the father is not named.

On the back of this birth certificate and marriage certificate of Mary and George Moore  are comments about a declaration made by a commissioner and they are labelled A and B.
Do you think there could be another document, maybe an adoption?  If so do you know how to get copies?

Anita Huh
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stanmapstone
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Re: Divorce Records
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 18 October 09 15:01 UTC (UK) »
Prior to 1927 there was no formal adoption process. Occasionally it was
arranged through a solicitor, doctor or charitable organisation but adoption
was viewed as an essentially private arrangement between the parties
concerned.

Stan
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