Access to Divorce Records

[La Reine Bleu]

Hi,

I'm currently trying to find details of a divorce in the UK during  the 1940s, but am not having much luck turning up sites that have such records. Does anyone know where/how to search for these?

Thanks,

Anna xx

[colinjohn]

Hello Anna

Others may know better but I doubt that there are any websites with the information you want.

First, read the National Archives guidance leaflet on the subject, here:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=53

I would suggest that the best source of information for you would be newspapers, preferably local newspapers for the area where the parties lived. Unfortunately they are very unlikely to be online either, you would have to visit either the British Library newspaper collection at Colindale, North London, (http://www.bl.uk/collections/newspapers.html) or the local studies library for the relevant area (you could try writing to them if can't visit and you know the dates of the hearings or the decrees) - search for the local studies library here:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/.

You could also try the Times newspaper, there might be a report in that; it has the advantage that it is fully searchable online but you will need to access it through a library or something similar, it's only available on subscription to institutions, not to individuals.

Good luck

Colin