Divorce in Scotland.....

[sporran]

Hello Sheila,


the search page is at
http://www.dswebhosting.info/nas/ .


Regards,

John

[DavidWW]

Hi Everyone

Maybe I'm the one who is dense.
Do you mean that you can look for a divorce on line at NAS?
This would be of interest to me because my mother was briefly married in Scotland before coming to Canada. I know that he divorced her for desertion, probably in the 1940's or even the early 1950's. I would , of course like to find out when.

When I go to the sight and type in Divorce Records, nothing happens.

All that is available on the NAS site is general information on divorce records.

The Divorce Register at GROS only started in 1984, so it's likely to be more than a few years before an index and images become available on the www .........

Prior to that date, if the divorce took place in Scotland, there should be an RCE annotation on the original marriage register entry.

If the divorce took place in a court outside Scotland then it's a pure lottery as to whether that information ended up in the Scottish records, and if, for instance, a subsequent remarriage took place in Scotland, I'm unclear as to whether the necessary declaration of freedom to marry which would have to have included evidence of divorce if previously married, and if such divorce had taken place in another jurisdiction, then whether that would have led to an RCE annotation on the original Scottish marriage register entry, - I suspect not ......... as there is no annotation on my first marriage in Scotland in relation to the divorce in England, but then the subsequent second civil marriage took place in Sweden with, just to complicate matters, a church marriage in Finland

[Sporran will just love that sentence ]

David

[sheilajim]

Thanks David & Sporran.

I guess that I'm out of luck then, at least for a few years. He divorced her in Scotland, while she was in Canada, where she subsequently got
married again. She seems to have gotten married again before being divorced from her first husband. I guess she didn't mention that she had been married before, because the marriage in Canada was deemed legal. So legal in fact, that it took a special act of Parliament for her to get divorced from my father, her second husband in the late 50's. That was how divorce was done in Quebec, Canada in those days.
Poor Mom, she didn't have good luck with men.

P>S> I can't believe that I spelt SITE as SIGHT in the previous message!

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[ASGROOMBRIDGE]

Hello everyone,

A marriage that took place in Scotland in the 1940's then turned out to be a bigamus marriage on the male part who was then taken back for trial in England (complicated I know) Would that be on the original marriage certificate, or is there somewhere else to look.

Audrey

[DavidWW]

Hello everyone,

A marriage that took place in Scotland in the 1940's then turned out to be a bigamus marriage on the male part who was then taken back for trial in England (complicated I know) Would that be on the original marriage certificate, or is there somewhere else to look.

Audrey

There may be an RCE linked to the Scottish marriage register entry......... but you would have to look at the Scottish marriage register entry (or buy the extract!)

Any court papers would be down in England.

David