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California Divorce Index?- Completed
« on: Saturday 21 July 07 20:21 BST (UK) »
Another request now that my grandfather's marriage seems to have been found. California Divorce Index 1966-1984.

Donald Perry WRIGHT (age 64) m.(30 July 1966 Kern Co., California) Olivia Hayhurst (age 58). She left him shortly after wedding I'm told and wondering if there's any sign of a divorce.

Found Olivia Hayhurst b.14 Dec.1907 d.18 Nov.1997 Bakersfield, Kern, California in Social Security Death Index. Full name Olivia Agnes, mother- Barlow, father- Wilson. If this is above bride it looks as though she was Wilson and had married Hayhurst. Possibly reverted to former name?
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Re: California Divorce Index?
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 21 July 07 20:45 BST (UK) »
This looks like them:

Donald WRIGHT b 1901 and Olivia WILSON b 1907, who had married in July 1966, listed under "preliminary" (presumably the first stage of divorce proceedings) in November 1966.  Theirs is a "Type 2" (I don't know what this means but most cases on the page are "Type 1").

Then there is a heading Dissolution CG Case Number under which is written 70 NC 006176 B, and a heading State File # under which is written 089872.

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Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: California Divorce Index?
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 21 July 07 20:56 BST (UK) »
Thanks Anna that's brilliant. In just a few hours today I found more (with help here) than I was able to in years.
Date for divoce proceedings confirms family story about wife leaving shortly after marriage.
Found her death in California records: Olivia Agnes Hayhurst born 14 Dec.1907 died 18 Nov.1997 Bakersfield, mother- Barlow, father- Wilson.
Seems her maiden name was Wilson and she reverted to Hayhurst (name of previous husband?) after divorce.
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Re: California Divorce Index?
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 21 July 07 20:58 BST (UK) »
Perhaps she reverted to previous husband after divorce ;)

Anna
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)


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Re: California Divorce Index?
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 21 July 07 21:06 BST (UK) »
Either that or was it a stage name or something (was California after all)?
Away sorting out DNA matches... I may be gone for some time many years!