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Marriage Dissolved?
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Michelle | Report | 12 Jul 2010 23:01 |
Just a quick thank you to all who helped with this one - especially the address for looking up divorce record information. |
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was plain ann now annielaurie | Report | 11 Jul 2010 22:40 |
What was his name? |
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Tetley | Report | 11 Jul 2010 22:10 |
Hi Michelle |
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Michelle | Report | 11 Jul 2010 15:43 |
Thanks Peter and Alison for your help. I don't suppose either of you know whether divorce records are available anywhere to view? I am now intrigued as to whether my grandfather had only just obtained his divorce or whether he'd been divorced for some time, but he and my nan only found the means to marry much later. It throws up so many questions for me and I would love to know a bit more about the first marriage, and potential reasons for the great period of time that passed from their first child being born in 1932 and their eventual marriage in 1964! |
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nuttybongo | Report | 11 Jul 2010 14:18 |
Had this one with my Grandad. He married a lady who, when they moved couldn't settle. One day he came home from work and found her gone. He tried to find her lost of different ways and couldn't, sometime later he met my Gran and they had to wait 7 years for the first marriage to be annuled, as they had had no contact with her. So he was free to marry. |
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Peter | Report | 10 Jul 2010 23:18 |
Michelle, |
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Michelle | Report | 10 Jul 2010 23:10 |
Apart from being in the RAF in the second world war, my grandad was a painter and decorater. He and my nan had six children, the first being born in 1930, but they never married until 1954 when he was 60 and she was 54, it just seems so odd. Even with him being married previously it seems an incredibly long time to wait to legalise things. I know nothing about pensions but maybe that is the reason, as I can't really understand why they eventually chose to marry - maybe something I shall never discover! |
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Janet 693215 | Report | 10 Jul 2010 22:32 |
Was your grandad in an occupation where his wife would have been entitled to a pension? I can't see another reason for them to go to the cost of a divorce and legalise it otherwise. |
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Joy | Report | 10 Jul 2010 22:10 |
You're welcome :-) |
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Michelle | Report | 10 Jul 2010 22:08 |
Ok, thank you for that! |
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Joy | Report | 10 Jul 2010 22:00 |
It does mean divorced. That is the expression put on a certificate to mean he was divorced. |
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Michelle | Report | 10 Jul 2010 21:52 |
I have just received my grandparents marriage certificate which states that my grandmother as spinster but my grandfather as 'marriage previously dissolved' - can anyone help with what that may mean? |