Divorce

[wildgoose]

Below was attached to a 1868 Marriage cert.  Does anyone know were I could find more details

1898, Register of Corrected Entries, Vol II, Page 44, for the Parish of Auchterderran, in the County of Fife, recs.
Register of Marriages for the Parish of Auchterderran, in the County of Fife, for the year 1868, Entry No.23.
5th Mar 1898 - Decree of Divorce was pronounced by Lord STORMOUTH DARLING, Ordinary, in an action at the instance of Robert ERSKINE, Miner, 15 Hall Street, Lochgelly, against Mrs Elizabeth MORRIS or ERSKINE his wife residing at 214 St Clair Street, Sinclairtown, Kirkcaldy
The above insertion is made under the direction of the Registrar General in terms of the 5th Section of the Act 18 Vict c 29
Robert SMALL, Assist. Registrar
15th March 1898

[JAP]

The National Archives of Scotland may hold further records.

As you have the names and the years it is probably well worth contacting the NAS.

See:
http://www.nas.gov.uk/guides/divorce.asp
which is the NAS Guide to Divorce Records.

Good luck,

JAP

[NellW]

Having gone to the trouble of finding a further report relating this request, I am rather surprised to see it removed.  Had the person who objected contacted me, I would have happily removed the information and apologised for any offence caused.   I am getting used to the trend in genealogy for people not showing any gratitude for information found for them, so will just not bother in future. 

[kymmykym]

Hi Wildgoose

I found practically the same attachment to a 1904 marriage cert that was corrected in 1920, the cert was from Ayrshire. After quite a bit of hunting i managed to find a reference to it in the NAS catalogue, wondering if it is worthwhile going through to edinburgh to view the item. Have you had any luck? did you find yours?

Kym

[Chiad Fhear]

Having gone to the trouble of finding a further report relating this request, I am rather surprised to see it removed.  Had the person who objected contacted me, I would have happily removed the information and apologised for any offence caused.   I am getting used to the trend in genealogy for people not showing any gratitude for information found for them, so will just not bother in future. 

Hi NellW

I had a similar thing some time back with another site that I had my whole tree on and someone there 'objected' that I hadn't asked their permission to include them ... and so I deleted the whole lot and thought "stuff you" for your ingratitude!  Maybe they had a 'dark side'!

'Share and share alike' comes to mind (an expression found in many Last Will and & Testament transcriptions!) where genealogy is concerned.

It's not as if we're gathering the details with any ulterior motive in mind 

Regards

Chiad Fhear

[NellW]

Hi Chiad

Thanks for your support.  In this case there were two reports, a very inocuous one, and one which gave details of the reason for the divorce.  I'm not insensitive to the fact that some people don't like to find things out about their relatives, but I made the judgement that, since the poster had asked how to find out more, they would want the information.  The second report was removed without a word to me so I edited my first post to remove that too.  If I had been alerted to their objection, I would have removed in a trice.  Surely going to rootschat should be the second option?  No doubt both reports have kept for their research without a word of gratitude ....

Haven't bothered with rootschat since, and won't be bothering in future.

Helen

[JAP]

And also puzzling is that Robert & Elizabeth who were at 15 Hall St in the 1891 census, seem to be together (Elizabeth still as Robert's wife, and with three of their children still living at home) in the 1901 census (different address) ...

JAP

[wildgoose]

I was the person who posted the details below.  Can some please tell me what all the fuss was about   You can send me a PM if you like

1898, Register of Corrected Entries, Vol II, Page 44, for the Parish of Auchterderran, in the County of Fife, recs.
Register of Marriages for the Parish of Auchterderran, in the County of Fife, for the year 1868, Entry No.23.
5th Mar 1898 - Decree of Divorce was pronounced by Lord STORMOUTH DARLING, Ordinary, in an action at the instance of Robert ERSKINE, Miner, 15 Hall Street, Lochgelly, against Mrs Elizabeth MORRIS or ERSKINE his wife residing at 214 St Clair Street, Sinclairtown, Kirkcaldy
The above insertion is made under the direction of the Registrar General in terms of the 5th Section of the Act 18 Vict c 29
Robert SMALL, Assist. Registrar
15th March 1898

[Chiad Fhear]

Keep them at it Wildgoose!

As a point of correction for you the name STOURMOUTH DARLING should read STORMONTH DARLING.

I've a contact up in the Kirriemuir area for estate access for hill-walking with the name and they go back a long, long way ... legal profession, landed gentry and the likes!

Regards

Chiad Fhear