I wonder if someone could point me in the right direction, I'm trying to find a record of my grandparents divorce. Mr Albert Mitchell and yvonne mitchell they were married in 1939 in hendon middlesex, they split up in about 1953 and lived in kent. I don't know where I should look as not sure of the exact area. Would appreciate some advice. Thank you
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01-08-2020, 7:14 PM #1
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Divorce records
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01-08-2020, 11:03 PM #2
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Unfortunately I don't think that you will find anything. Below is a link to the guide published by the National Archives:
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/...uides/divorce/
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02-08-2020, 10:23 AM #3
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You can get a copy of the decree, but it can be expensive to search if you aren't sure where/when it was issued. Unlike the pre-1937 cases it will only confirm hat a divorce was granted, there will be no detail of why.
https://www.gov.uk/copy-decree-absolute-final-order
Did either marry again ? - A later marriage certificate would confirm if a divorce had taken place (or should have) and when by.
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02-08-2020, 12:04 PM #4
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Thank you for that, they both did marry again, i have the marriage date of my nan but not my grandad, would her marriage certificate state the date she was divorced? Many thanks again
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02-08-2020, 3:05 PM #5
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If anyone will know for definite it will be Antony
I have one divorced person marrying into my family and for the groom it says 'Formerly the husband of Winifred Smith, formerly Brown, spinster, from whom he obtained a divorce.' No date for the divorce.
As you know when your gran married again you have an 'end' date for searching, so you could try the British Newspaper Archive.
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
You have to register to use the site, but searching is free.
I don't know how many Kent newspapers for the 1950s they have online, nor whether the divorce would have been reported. Might not have been a full-blown report of the court proceedings, but there might just be a brief 'Fred Bloggs was granted a divorce on x grounds'.
Mitchell's a fairly common name so in the keywords box put 'divorce' to reduce the number of results.
If nothing shows up now, then check back in a few months because new pages are being added every week.
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03-08-2020, 8:02 AM #6
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My mother was divorced in about 1946 and remarried at Coventry Register Office in 1948. Her previous marital status on the 1948 certificate is described as: “The divorced wife of x.” It doesn't give the date of the divorce.
When I registered her death a few years back, the Registrar in Sussex said nowadays they’d use ”previous marriage dissolved” (As Antony has explained). But clearly divorced does appear on some records.ELWYN
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06-08-2020, 7:49 PM #8
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The wording was changed to just "previous marriage dissolved " at about that time ...I think after the 1949 Marriage Act.
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