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Title: Divorce record?
Post by: LMChapman on Sunday 10 August 25 16:39 BST (UK)
Hi - I'm trying to find more information on Elizabeth Jean Rose (b1925, Edmonton) who married John Robert Athelstan Clark in Hertfordshire, July 1956. I believe they had 2 sons and a daughter - the sons at least look to have been born in Glasgow.
Robert died in 1992 - I accessed his will, which refers to his wife as Rosemary.
I believe he married Rosemary Lingley in 1980.
I also have the will of Elizabeth's father, in which he bequeaths items to his daughter 'Jean Clark'. This is dated 1983.
So she appears to have still been alive at the time of Robert's second marriage.
Can anyone give advice on how I might find a record of divorce?
Title: Re: Divorce record?
Post by: rosie99 on Sunday 10 August 25 16:40 BST (UK)
Have you tried newspapers

Also
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/divorce/
Title: Re: Divorce record?
Post by: *Sandra* on Sunday 10 August 25 16:47 BST (UK)

Sorry, can't see a divorce mentioned so far................. :-\

Death Notice:-

Cambridge Evening News
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Tue, 28 Jan 1992
Page 8

https://www.newspapers.com/article/cambridge-evening-news/178583869/

Engagement

The Daily Telegraph
London, Greater London
Sat, 28 Apr 1956
Page 6

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph/178583984/

Sandra



Title: Re: Divorce record?
Post by: CaroleW on Sunday 10 August 25 18:29 BST (UK)
Marriage

John R A Clark/Rosemary A Lingley June qtr 1980  Cambridge
Volume Number 9 Page number    0984

A copy of the marriage cert will show his marital status  (ie) widower/divorced

Title: Re: Divorce record?
Post by: CaroleW on Sunday 10 August 25 18:45 BST (UK)
Are any of the 3 children still alive?  Can't you ask them if there was a divorce?
Title: Re: Divorce record?
Post by: *Sandra* on Sunday 10 August 25 18:55 BST (UK)

A possible here for Elizabeth Jean Rose/Clark  ???

Mrs Elizabeth Jean Clark - 8 September 1925 - 19 April 2022
Age   97
Last Residence   Cambridge, Cambridgeshire - Postal Code District   Cb1

Sandra
Title: Re: Divorce record?
Post by: LMChapman on Sunday 10 August 25 19:05 BST (UK)
Are any of the 3 children still alive?  Can't you ask them if there was a divorce?

They likely are, but I haven't found any information on where they live, etc.
And it's not my family tree, doing work for someone else, so on a time schedule and just wouldn't feel appropriate to contact them.
Title: Re: Divorce record?
Post by: LMChapman on Sunday 10 August 25 19:05 BST (UK)

A possible here for Elizabeth Jean Rose/Clark  ???

Mrs Elizabeth Jean Clark - 8 September 1925 - 19 April 2022
Age   97
Last Residence   Cambridge, Cambridgeshire - Postal Code District   Cb1

Sandra

That's interesting thank you - where did you find this?
Title: Re: Divorce record?
Post by: *Sandra* on Sunday 10 August 25 19:09 BST (UK)

A possible here for Elizabeth Jean Rose/Clark  ???

Mrs Elizabeth Jean Clark - 8 September 1925 - 19 April 2022
Age   97
Last Residence   Cambridge, Cambridgeshire - Postal Code District   Cb1

Sandra

That's interesting thank you - where did you find this?

England and Wales, Death Index, 1989-2024 on ancestry.

Sandra

Title: Re: Divorce record?
Post by: LMChapman on Sunday 10 August 25 19:20 BST (UK)

A possible here for Elizabeth Jean Rose/Clark  ???

Mrs Elizabeth Jean Clark - 8 September 1925 - 19 April 2022
Age   97
Last Residence   Cambridge, Cambridgeshire - Postal Code District   Cb1

Sandra

That's interesting thank you - where did you find this?

England and Wales, Death Index, 1989-2024 on ancestry.

Sandra

Thank you so much - that's her. Slipped through all my searches! I've downloaded her will now :)
Title: Re: Divorce record?
Post by: *Sandra* on Sunday 10 August 25 19:25 BST (UK)


Pleased you have got past that brick wall.  :)

Sandra