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Divorce 1890?
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Jane | Report | 6 Apr 2006 21:44 |
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Can anyone point me in the right direction to find out if my g g grandparents divorced? Not sure where to look to find the info! I know that it was expensive and that he left her and went to America in 1890 where he 'married' again. Would like to know one way or the other really as its the last piece of this particular puzzle. Thanks |
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Heather | Report | 6 Apr 2006 22:07 |
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Whats great grannies name? Have you found her in a census after great grand dad went off? As you say divorce was expensive and not common. Even in the 60s when I was a girl a divorce would be in the local papers! Im taking the liberty of copying info from Helen little Nell for you on an earlier query like this: Principal Registry of the Family Division, First Avenue House, 42-49 High Holborn, London WC1V 6NP (020 7947 7015). For a fee, they will access a union index to the registered court copies of decrees absolute for you, and either provide a certified copy of the information themselves (if the divorce was granted by the Supreme Court) or arrange for a certified copy to be sent to you from the relevant county court. ' More info: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=53&j=1 |
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Jane | Report | 6 Apr 2006 22:12 |
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Her name was Frances/Fanny Toyne(e) and he was Watson Carr. They married in 1882 and he sailed off to America with another woman in tow and her children (under his surname). They had a boy in 1882 - Charles Watson Carr, my Great grandad. Fanny killed herself in 1892 at the age of 26 - she left Charles with her parents and was working as a cook in Lincoln. Obvoiusly I would like to know her full story - sad though it may be. |
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