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*[https:// | *[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://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/1663001/ Williams] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 25 May 2010 | **''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=== | ===Divorce legal judgements=== | ||
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==Historic books online== | ==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. | *[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] | ||
[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== | ==External links== | ||
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Revision as of 06:08, 17 October 2021
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[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
- 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, 1858-1915 are available on the pay website Ancestry.co.uk, located in the category Birth, Marriage & Death, including Parish/Marriage & Divorce.