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    A query on behalf of a friend who doesn’t know where to start looking and I’m clueless as well about English divorce records. Can anybody point us in the right direction please?

    All parties to the marriages are long dead.

    Dec 1919 Nora Ann LOCKWOOD marries Richard William TROWHILL in St. Luke’s, Hull
    March 1932 Nora Ann LOCKWOOD marries Edward KERSHAW in Woolwich Register Office, London
    3Q 1956 Nora Ann TROWHILL marries Richard William TROWHILL in Hull Register Office, Yorkshire

    How do I find out if Nora(h) ever divorced Richard after the first marriage?

    There’s a possibility that she didn’t as her name on the marriage to Edward is Lockwood and not the expected Trowhill which suggests that she committed bigamy. When she married Richard again many years later, there’s no mention of her maiden name of Lockwood nor her 2nd husband’s name Kershaw.

    The last known birth of a child to the first marriage was in 3Q 1930. So if they did divorce it’s sometime between 3Q 1930 and 1Q 1932.

    There were 3 children to the 2nd marriage, the first one born 4Q 1932 in Woolwich and died there 1933. The second one was also born in Woolwich and died in Hull 1997. The third was given the same name as the first and is still alive.

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    The National; Archives have divorces searchable online up to 1937. You have to put the code J77 in the Department or series code box when you search the catalogue, but there were no Trowhills listed when looked.
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    Judith passed away in October 2018

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    • #3
      Thanks Judith. Looks like there's been a bit of fibbing going on right enough!

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