Divorce and Marriage in the 1940s. Completed

[Hibee]

Hi

Andrew Stuart was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1911.  On 17 Sep 1938, he married Jeanie Brown Brock (b. Sydney Australia, 1911), in Edinburgh.

He joined the Royal Engineers, and travelled to Cape Town on the Dunnottar Castle on 23 Feb 1939.  Jeannie followed in November of that year.

Sometime between 1943 and 1946, they divorced in South Africa, there were no children.  Jeanie returned to Scotland, dying in 1992.

Andrew, who was a joiner by trade, married Shirley ? in South Africa.  The couple sailed from Durban to Southampton, arriving in May 1949.

Can anyone fill in any blanks?

Thank you.

Hibee

[Andcarred]

Hi,

I might be wrong  in this assumption but I thought if you married in Scotland the divorce would have to go through the Scottish Courts.    I don't think the South African courts would have the jurisdiction to dissolve a marriage that had taken place in Scotland.   What do others think?

Andcarred

[ouma]

Hi Hibee 

A tit bit for you 

Andrew Stuart versus Jean Brown born Brock. The divorce was granted in 1947

The divorce case file is at the National Archives in Pretoria

TAB email : enquiries at dac dot gov dot za

Source WLD Ref 163/1947

Ouma

[Hibee]

Thank you, Ouma.

Hibee