Following my previous thread about bigamy, I am now trying to establish whether my great grandmother ever got divorced from her second husband. She was Charlotte caplin (nee read/reed), and after being widowed, she married walter hand in 1898 in Mile End (mistranscribed on ancestry as haud).
Walter was born in the East End in 1838, but had moved to west derby in the 1880s. He was widowed in 1892.
By 1901 Walter is back in west derby in the workhouse, although he doesn't die until 1917.
Charlotte (using the name caplin) had a child in 1903, and another in 1905, before marrying my great grandfather in Nov 1906. She claims to be widowed, and the surname Hand isn't mentioned.
I have tried to search TNA for a divorce record in all these names, but got no results. They claim their records coverage for those years is almost 100%. I can't see anywhere else to search for the few that didn't get recorded.
I'm also unsure if maybe Charlotte could have had Walter declared dead after 7 years absence, or whether any records were kept of such an action.
Any tips would be appreciated
Darannon
Walter was born in the East End in 1838, but had moved to west derby in the 1880s. He was widowed in 1892.
By 1901 Walter is back in west derby in the workhouse, although he doesn't die until 1917.
Charlotte (using the name caplin) had a child in 1903, and another in 1905, before marrying my great grandfather in Nov 1906. She claims to be widowed, and the surname Hand isn't mentioned.
I have tried to search TNA for a divorce record in all these names, but got no results. They claim their records coverage for those years is almost 100%. I can't see anywhere else to search for the few that didn't get recorded.
I'm also unsure if maybe Charlotte could have had Walter declared dead after 7 years absence, or whether any records were kept of such an action.
Any tips would be appreciated
Darannon
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