Divorce

External links

General

• The Indian Divorce Act, 1869 www.indiankanoon.org
• Christian Law of Divorce in India Wikipedia

Records

• Search the Archives of the Rootsweb India Mailing List for posts which discuss the possible ways of finding records for a divorce. However they do not definitely establish that there are still relevant records existing in India. Also Search the India- British- Raj List Archives, or Search All Rootsweb Mailing Lists Archives.
  • Rootsweb India List post Williams gives a copy of a notice of a 1926 divorce action in Cawnpore, where the wife resided, the husband residing in Cardiff, Wales. The notice appeared in the Public and Legal Notices of a Cardiff newspaper, Western Mail Tuesday October 5th 1926, presumably placed there by the Indian court system. This suggests local U.K. newspapers may be a source of information, if one spouse lived in the U.K.
• How to look for records of...Divorce This is a guide for British records. nationalarchives.gov.uk

Divorce legal judgements

From www.indiankanoon.org

• V.H. Lopez vs E.J. Lopez on 8/9/1885 Calcutta High Court. Marriage between a man and his deceased wife's sister, where the parties were Roman Catholic.
• Culley vs Culley And Ors. on 16/6/1888 Allahabad High Court
• K. M. Butt vs F. C. K. Butt on 6/9/1897 Calcutta High Court
• Edward Caston vs L.H. Caston and W.T. Cogdell on 27/3/1899 Allahabad High Court
• 1912 divorce petition Henry William Gill and his wife Catherine Isabella Gill. Cawnpore. Allahabad High Court
• Beatrice Alice De Ste Croix vs Philip De Ste Croix on 23/1/1917 Calcutta High Court
• Alfred Wilkinson vs Grace Emily Wilkinson on 4/4/1923 Poona. Bombay High Court
• Rachel Benjamin vs Benjamin Solomon Benjamin on 23/9/1925, a Jewish couple. Bombay High Court
• M. Barnard vs G.H. Barnard on 31/1/1928 Calcutta High Court
• Henrietta Violet Wenkenbach (otherwise Taylor) vs Otto Guenter Wenkenbach on 23/7/1936 Calcutta High Court
• Grace Isabel Stuedman vs Anneley Eliardo Beresford De... on 27/5/1943 Calcutta High Court. This is elsewhere referred to as 'Grace Isabel Stuedman v. A. E. B. de Courey Wheeler'
• Ralph Hugh Friedlander vs Kathleen Marjorie Friedlander on 30/8/1948 Bombay High Court
• Yvonme [Yvonne?] Gwendoline Marie Lewis vs Aloysius Lewis on 6/12/1948 Madras High Court
• Alfred Stanley Barrett vs Mrs. Kathleen Barrett on 26/8/1949 Lucknow. Allahabad High Court
• David Sassoon Ezekiel vs Najia Noori Reuben on 9/3/1931 re a betrothal of a Jewish couple. Bombay High Court

Historic books online

• The Law of Divorce Applicable to Christians in India (The Indian Divorce Act 1869) By H A Rattigan 1897. Archive.org. Contains a Table of Cases
• Road to Divorce : England 1530-1987 by Lawrence Stone 1990. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

External links

• U.K. Civil Divorce Records, 1858-1918 are available on the pay website Ancestry.co.uk, located in the category Birth, Marriage & Death, including Parish/Marriage & Divorce.
• Form D440: Request for Search for Divorce Decree Absolute from HM Courts & Tribunals Service. gov.uk