Divorce-is it possible to see records?.....

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Re: Divorce-is it possible to see records?

Post by scooter » Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:33 am

joette wrote:I am wondering if there is somewhere that it is possible to view Divorce
Records.I dont want to know the nitty-gritty just when they divorced,provision if any for the children,distribution of any property.
If there is any corespondent mentioned it might enable me to track down a remarriage also.This would be about 1920 so I doubt that this is avaiable.
I am totally ignorant re divorce where are Records held-presuambly there are ones kept?
It's a shame we can't access some of the previous topics of conversation on the old scotlandspeople forum. There was a very interesting and detailed thread about divorces and where to find the records. The result of this led me to my GG Grandfather's divorce papers from 1888 which were absolutely fascinating, if not rather eye-opening. These were held at the NAS in Edinburgh. About a year later I found a small article about the divorce in the Scotsman archive which added a few more snippets of information.
Researching Wishart (Glasgow & Kirkcaldy), McDonald (Donegal & Falkirk), Thomson (Star, Fife) & Harley (Monimail, Moonzie & Cupar)