Hi everyone, i have come across some anomalies on the marriage certificate for my Mums Uncle. His name was Arthur Roote and he married, well i know that he married Henrietta Dawson - spinster in 1924, however i have since discovered that Henrietta was in fact Harriet, and that she had married a Richard Hutton in 1910. Harriet had a son by Richard born 1912, my family knew nothing about the 1st marriage or indeed the child (he was raised by his father). The point is that Richard also remarried - stating that he was a bachelor!
My point is, were Harriet ( Henrietta) and Richard actually divorced, or were their 2nd marriages bigamous? I haven't a clue how to trace a record of divorce, can anyone help me?
Oh yes, they were all involved in the acting profession, and i am told that Arthur and Harriet led a somewhat bohemian lifestyle, in fact it seems from the marriage cert that they had been cohabiting before the big day, perhaps a little daring in the 1920's! But then they were living in London at the time.......
