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==External links==
==External links==
These [[India List]] posts 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.
===General===
*[http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/806295/ The Indian Divorce Act, 1869] www.indiankanoon.org
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Law_of_Divorce_in_India  Christian Law of Divorce in India] Wikipedia
 
===Records===
*[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 [https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india-british-raj Search the India- British- Raj List Archives], or [https://lists.rootsweb.com/listindexes Search All Rootsweb Mailing Lists Archives].
**''Rootsweb India List'' post Williams<ref>O'Kelly,  Joss. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190426031958/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/1663001/ Williams] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 25 May 2010, now archived.</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 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===
From www.indiankanoon.org
*[http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/1898865  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.
*[http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/88375/ Culley vs Culley And Ors. on 16/6/1888] Allahabad High Court
*[http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/452559/ K. M. Butt vs F. C. K. Butt on 6/9/1897] Calcutta High Court
*[http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/846773/ Edward Caston vs L.H. Caston and W.T. Cogdell on 27/3/1899] Allahabad High Court
*[http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/1811244/ 1912 divorce petition Henry William Gill and his wife Catherine Isabella Gill]. Cawnpore. Allahabad High Court
*[http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/1998221/ Beatrice Alice De Ste Croix vs Philip De Ste Croix on 23/1/1917] Calcutta High Court
*[http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/983780/ Alfred Wilkinson vs Grace Emily Wilkinson on 4/4/1923] Poona. Bombay High Court
*[http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/1474544/  Rachel Benjamin vs Benjamin Solomon Benjamin on 23/9/1925], a Jewish  couple. Bombay High Court
*[http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/106077/ M. Barnard vs G.H. Barnard on 31/1/1928] Calcutta High Court
*[http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/1417705/ Henrietta Violet Wenkenbach (otherwise Taylor) vs Otto Guenter Wenkenbach on 23/7/1936] Calcutta High Court
*[http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/861983/ 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'
*[http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/975208/ Ralph Hugh Friedlander vs Kathleen Marjorie Friedlander on 30/8/1948]  Bombay High Court
*[http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/1405768/ Yvonme <nowiki>[</nowiki>Yvonne?<nowiki>]</nowiki> Gwendoline Marie Lewis vs Aloysius Lewis on 6/12/1948] Madras High Court
*[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
 
==References==
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[http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2006-09/1159538021  9/2006]; [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2006-09/1159571480  9/2006]; [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2007-07/1185800162 7/2007]; [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2007-08/1186302770 8/2007]; [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2009-07/1247450638-01 7/2009]; [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2009-11/1257591343  11/2009]


Refer also  [[Researchers and Document Services in India and the UK]]


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Latest revision as of 22:58, 17 July 2022

External links

General

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[1] 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

Historic books online

External links

References

  1. ↑ O'Kelly, Joss. Williams Rootsweb India Mailing List 25 May 2010, now archived.
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