On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 17:19:20 -0000 (UTC), "Geoff"
<onlyme101@btinternet.com> wrote:

Charles Ellson wrote:

On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 12:51:20 +0100, john
<john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr> wrote:

On 06/11/2024 12:24, Geoff wrote:

Geoff wrote:

Aew there actually ANY divorce records on Ancestry? Although they
claim to have them, I can't even find even one of any place or

date. >>

Sorry for the early morning typos!

From a search for "divorce" in the Card Catalogue:
All England & Wales, Civil Divorce Records, 1858-1918
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/2465/

Like e.g. Coroners' records, the divorce records are not a
comprehensive set of records as not all were retained.

[https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/divorce/]

"4.1 What proportion of case files survive?
The survival rate of divorce case files is:

1858-1927: almost 100%
1928-1937: 80%
After 1937: less than 0.2%
No case files survive from the district registries set up in 1927."

It is sometimes initially quicker and easier to search the Times index
for notices of divorce in England and Wales.

Thanks Charles. A couple of mine were after 1937 so I won't waste any
more time on that line.

I don't know how much searching old newspapers might help you. When I
was last in the Isle of Man in the 1990s the local press published
notices about the recent divorce decrees, including the name of any co-respondent. That might have been because of the IoM having its own judiciary, and a small population, but perhaps some papers on the
mainland did similar reporting.

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On Sat, 09 Nov 2024 14:42:30 +0000, Peter Johnson
<peter@parksidewood.nospam> wrote:

On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 17:19:20 -0000 (UTC), "Geoff"
<onlyme101@btinternet.com> wrote:

Charles Ellson wrote:

On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 12:51:20 +0100, john
<john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr> wrote:

On 06/11/2024 12:24, Geoff wrote:

Geoff wrote:

Aew there actually ANY divorce records on Ancestry? Although they
claim to have them, I can't even find even one of any place or

date. >>

Sorry for the early morning typos!

From a search for "divorce" in the Card Catalogue:
All England & Wales, Civil Divorce Records, 1858-1918
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/2465/

Like e.g. Coroners' records, the divorce records are not a
comprehensive set of records as not all were retained.

[https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/divorce/]

"4.1 What proportion of case files survive?
The survival rate of divorce case files is:

1858-1927: almost 100%
1928-1937: 80%
After 1937: less than 0.2%
No case files survive from the district registries set up in 1927."

It is sometimes initially quicker and easier to search the Times index
for notices of divorce in England and Wales.

Thanks Charles. A couple of mine were after 1937 so I won't waste any
more time on that line.

I don't know how much searching old newspapers might help you. When I
was last in the Isle of Man in the 1990s the local press published
notices about the recent divorce decrees, including the name of any >co-respondent. That might have been because of the IoM having its own >judiciary, and a small population, but perhaps some papers on the
mainland did similar reporting.

I don't know if the Times still carries on the practice but local
newspapers in earlier times would also mention divorces, probably
copied from the Times. In Scotland they are all indexed on the GRO
and/or National Registers of Scotland websites (put divorce surname1
surname2 in the search box for all terms to match).

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Aew there actually ANY divorce records on Ancestry? Although they
claim to have them, I can't even find even one of any place or date.

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Geoff wrote:

Aew there actually ANY divorce records on Ancestry? Although they
claim to have them, I can't even find even one of any place or date.

Sorry for the early morning typos!

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On 06/11/2024 12:24, Geoff wrote:

Geoff wrote:

Aew there actually ANY divorce records on Ancestry? Although they
claim to have them, I can't even find even one of any place or date.

Sorry for the early morning typos!

From a search for "divorce" in the Card Catalogue:
All England & Wales, Civil Divorce Records, 1858-1918 https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/2465/

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On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 12:51:20 +0100, john
<john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr> wrote:

On 06/11/2024 12:24, Geoff wrote:

Geoff wrote:

Aew there actually ANY divorce records on Ancestry? Although they
claim to have them, I can't even find even one of any place or date.

Sorry for the early morning typos!

From a search for "divorce" in the Card Catalogue:
All England & Wales, Civil Divorce Records, 1858-1918 >https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/2465/

Like e.g. Coroners' records, the divorce records are not a
comprehensive set of records as not all were retained.

[https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/divorce/]

"4.1 What proportion of case files survive?
The survival rate of divorce case files is:

1858-1927: almost 100%
1928-1937: 80%
After 1937: less than 0.2%
No case files survive from the district registries set up in 1927."

It is sometimes initially quicker and easier to search the Times index
for notices of divorce in England and Wales.

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john wrote:

On 06/11/2024 12:24, Geoff wrote:

Geoff wrote:

Aew there actually ANY divorce records on Ancestry? Although they
claim to have them, I can't even find even one of any place or
date.

Sorry for the early morning typos!

From a search for "divorce" in the Card Catalogue:
All England & Wales, Civil Divorce Records, 1858-1918 https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/2465/

Many thanks John, Not sure how I missed that one!

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Charles Ellson wrote:

On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 12:51:20 +0100, john
<john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr> wrote:

On 06/11/2024 12:24, Geoff wrote:

Geoff wrote:

Aew there actually ANY divorce records on Ancestry? Although they
claim to have them, I can't even find even one of any place or

date. >>

Sorry for the early morning typos!

From a search for "divorce" in the Card Catalogue:
All England & Wales, Civil Divorce Records, 1858-1918 https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/2465/

Like e.g. Coroners' records, the divorce records are not a
comprehensive set of records as not all were retained.

[https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/divorce/]

"4.1 What proportion of case files survive?
The survival rate of divorce case files is:

1858-1927: almost 100%
1928-1937: 80%
After 1937: less than 0.2%
No case files survive from the district registries set up in 1927."

It is sometimes initially quicker and easier to search the Times index
for notices of divorce in England and Wales.

Thanks Charles. A couple of mine were after 1937 so I won't waste any
more time on that line.

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On 06/11/2024 10:34, Geoff wrote:

Aew there actually ANY divorce records on Ancestry? Although they
claim to have them, I can't even find even one of any place or date.

They have older ones, I once used them to research a wealthy local
family, the wife had a very colourful history :-)



England & Wales, Civil Divorce Records, 1858-1918
England & Wales, Civil Divorce Records, 1858-1918
Published on Ancestry15/01/2013
Updated07/12/2023
The gloves come off in these divorce records, as petitioners make their
case for dissolving marital unions in the U.K. from 1858-1916.
Birth, Marriage & Death, including Parish 90,710

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