Forum: Divorce

I have read topics about English divorce records here but wondered if anyone knows about Scottish divorce records. My grandmother was divorced in Scotland in 1919 ' under the insistance of her husband' who had returned from the war. We know that her daughter aged 5 stayed with her but her 3 sons...

Hello, I have done a search of this forum and couldn't find an answer, so hoping someone knowledgeable can help! I have located a Divorce Record from 1920 at the NA and can get a jpeg or pdf download for a fee. I was wondering if any of the Ancestry subscriptions cover divorce records as...

Hi there, Living here in WA. Austrialia find it hard to know where to start to look for Phyllis Elliot's divorce inform. This is the inform. I have which is proberly not enough but it's worth a try. Phyllis Elliot brn Sept 1902 . married Earnest MacDonald divorced when ?. Phyllis remarried a...

My grandma was Margaret Mothersday(think?)Wood.Now I know she married my granddad in 1912 in Darlington,County Durham.They moved to Bradford ,Yorkshire around 1914.I know they got divorced inthe 1940's but then Grandma went missing and didn't return until the 1960's.We were taken to meet her when I...

My fathers mother may or may not have been married to his father. On his birth cert. it shows Ernest Grainger as his father. In the 1901 census for Wollaston, Worcestershire it shows her as his wife and his brother is on the census. The only marriage I can find is when she married George Thomas...

hello Could somone help me look for my granmother divorce She married a william jennings in 1908 Her name was Polly Davy (Davy) her maiden name Then she married my granfather in 1930 I know she was living with my grandfather in 1928 because on my uncle birth ceifc she got her seif down...

I’m having difficulty deciphering one of the words in the following article from an 1880 newspaper article I downloaded from the web. I can make assumptions on the meaning of the word would be delighted if anyone can provide a correct definition I think the jpeg file is attached!!!! Thanks ...

Is there any way to check if my g. grandmother divorced her husband before she re-married in 1911. She abandoned her kids on the orphanage steps in Bethnal Green sometime between 1896 (this was year of birth of youngest child) and 1901 when they are shown in the orphanage records. Maureen

I believe my great uncle, 'Jim' Pearce, divorced his first wife, Kathleen/Catherine nee Melrose in the 1930s (he remarried in 1948). The couple emigrated from the UK in the 1920s and met and married in Canada but in 1930/31, while both were resident in the UK (they had returned for a holiday)...

Hi , I'm looking for information on how to find out about a divorce in the Liverpool area around 1845 to 1850. Can anyone help??? Thanks, Breener

Hi Is it possible to find a divorce between 1937 & 1955? Where would I look? Vast range of time but I know that one of the parties remarried c 1955. I believe that the other person remarried too,but no idea when. One of them changed their name also. Would thay have been divorced in the...

I have a reference number and the names of the parties involved in a divorce in 1883 in Derbyshire. Can anyone tell me, please, where I might be able to find further details of the petition?

My g-grandfather Harry Claud Good divorced his first wife, Elizabeth Mary Humble (m. 1911), and he re-married (not sure who). Is there somewhere online I can find divorce records, or do I have to wait until I make a trip to the UK! Many thanks

If a couple get divorced, and the female marries again, is she likely to be listed under her maiden name again in the marriage indexes? Presumably when she divorced she would have reverted to her maiden name? We're looking at sometime between 1936 and 1953. I know the court service will search...

Can anyone advise on the possibility of divorce in the mid 1800's please. I have been trying to locate my g grandfather who married in 1832 in Yorkshire and had 4 boys between 1833 and 1841. In the 1851 census he and one son are not listed with the rest of the family in Yorkshire. The wife is shown...