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*These [[https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india 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 [httphttps://archivermlarchives.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/readlistindexes/emails?listname=india/2006-09/1159538021 9/2006]; [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2006british-09/1159571480 9/2006]; [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2007raj Search the India-07/1185800162 7/2007]; [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2007British-08/1186302770 8/2007Raj List Archives]; , or [httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2009-07/1247450638-01 7/2009listindexes Search All Rootsweb Mailing Lists Archives]; [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2009-11/1257591343 **''Rootsweb India List'' post Williams<ref>O'Kelly, 11/2009];:[http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestryJoss.com/th/read/INDIA/2010-03/1267763921 3/2010], which contains a [httphttps://www.nationalarchivesweb.govarchive.ukorg/recordsweb/looking-for-person20190426031958/divorce.htm?WT.lp=rg-3175 National Archives Research Guide] for divorce records in the U.K.; :[httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/INDIA/2010-06/1277886459 6/2010];*This [http://archiverindia.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ththread/read1663001/INDIA/2010-05/1274780313 Williams] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List post]'' 25 May 2010, originally a [http://archiver.rootswebnow archived.ancestry.com/th/read/dyfed/2010-05</1274697073 Dyfed List post] ref> 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 person spouse lived in the U.K.*[https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/divorce/ How to look for records of...Divorce] This is a guide for British records. nationalarchives.gov.uk
===Divorce legal judgements===
*[http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/615345/ Alfred Stanley Barrett vs Mrs. Kathleen Barrett on 26/8/1949] Lucknow. Allahabad High Court
*[http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/1870809 David Sassoon Ezekiel vs Najia Noori Reuben on 9/3/1931 re a betrothal] of a Jewish couple. Bombay High Court
==Historic books online==
*[http://archive.org/stream/lawdivorceappli00indigoog#page/n4/mode/2up ''The Law of Divorce Applicable to Christians in India (The Indian Divorce Act 1869)''] By H A Rattigan 1897. Archive.org. Contains a [http://archive.org/stream/lawdivorceappli00indigoog#page/n12/mode/2up Table of Cases]
*[https://archive.org/details/roadtodivorceeng0000ston/mode/2up ''Road to Divorce : England 1530-1987''] by Lawrence Stone 1990. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
==External links==
*[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2465 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.
*[https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/form-d440-request-for-search-for-divorce-decree-absolute Form D440: Request for Search for Divorce Decree Absolute] from HM Courts & Tribunals Service. gov.uk
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