Genealogy Chat

How I go about finding a divorce record late 1920's early 1930's, never come across it before.
Gill

You can write to this address:-

Principal Registry of the Family Division
1st Avenue House
42-49 High Holborn
WC2A 2LL

Telephone : 020 7947 6000

Fax : 020 7947 7027

Website:
hmcourts-service.gov.uk

They will do a search covering 10 years. I think the cost is about £30.

Are you certain that the couple divorced? It's just that a lot of marriages broke up between the wars and because divorce was expensive and difficult to get, lots of couples just split up and then lived with another person as man and wife or married again bigamously.

My own father-in-law left his first wife in the 1930's and set up home with my mother-in-law and it wasn't until recently that we found that they were never actually married - but everyone assumed that they were.

Kath. x

Hi Kath,
Thankyou for the information. No Iam not sure they divorced, The wife (OH's grandma) never married again but I have just found out her husband did and had two futher children, so I don't know what to think.
Gill

The same thing with my grandfather. He left my nan in 1931. I discovered he died in 1973 and was living with a lady who he never married. Mad thing is he and my nan could not have divorced but she married again!!! Pam

Hehe and these people were held up as a shinning example to us!!!
Gill

Hi

Its £40 for a 10 year search now.

But have you had a look on the national archives website, their J77 range can be searched online now, at least it wont cost you anything to have a look on there.