Divorces

[redducky]

Can anyone tell me the best place to check out that my grandfather James Colin Campbell divorced his first wife, Ethel Eastwood whom he married in Huddersfield, Yorkshire in 1916, before marrying my grandmother Alice Maud Carter in 1930.  I have checked on Ancestry but can't seem to locate it and it is starting to worry me.  I have found details of both marriages but no divorce as yet.

[aghadowey]

Does the 1916 marriage certificate guve his status as 'divorced'?

* 1930

[redducky]

The 1930 marriage to my grandmother says he was divorced from Ethel Eastwood.  I haven't seen the marriage certificate for the first marriage in 1916 as I presumed it was his first marriage.

[aghadowey]

Sorry, I mean the 1930 marriage.

[Bee]

Just a thought, would he have had to prove that he was divorced prior to his 2nd marriage. 

One of mine never bothered with a divorce, just cleared off to another town to get married again

Bee
 

[redducky]

That's what I wondered, did they have to produce the divorce paperwork?  The second marriage was in London just 49 days before my mother was born!

[ShaunJ]

See http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/divorce.htm for where to look

[stanmapstone]

Just a thought, would he have had to prove that he was divorced prior to his 2nd marriage. 

No,  the civil registration system is informant driven, that is the priest or registrar accepts what they are told by the people involved.

Stan

[dawnsh]

You can ask HMCTS at Holborn to do a decree absolute search but that costs £65 for a 10 year search but if there is a divorce, all you'll get is an a4 sheet of paper with their names on it along with the date and place of their marriage and the court and date of divorce.

https://www.gov.uk/copy-decree-absolute-final-order