Divorce in Scotland in the 1920s

[Gill87]

Hello,

Does anybody know how to go about researching divorce records?

I'm looking specifically for the divorce of James Gray Donaldson and Jane Dow Kennedy. They married in Glasgow on 19/09/1924 but divorced sometime before 1938 - this is when James remarried Annie McConnach Benson. Jane remarries the following year to Hugh Douglas Jardine.

Does anybody know how common divorce was in the 1920s/30s?

Or does anybody recognise any of the names above as relating to their family tree in some way.

Thank you lots!! Gill

[gaucho]

You can find the divorce on the National Archives of Scotland on line catalogue at
http://www.nas.gov.uk/onlineCatalogue/
John

[Gill87]

Thank you. I had come across this website before but have found it incredibly hard to use *embarrassed face*.

I'll keep playing around with the search fields.

[gaucho]

just put in both surnames, leave the search fields as AND, you'll get a couple of pages of results

[Gill87]

Ah ha,

But no relevant records or divorce records...

[garngad]

hi i have come across a divorce in my family search in 1925 it was in the RCE which is the register of corrected entries its not much but maybe will help you

[GR2]

I assume you have the first marriage certificate or it says divorced on the second one. If not, there is always the possibility that there never was a first marriage.

[bleckie]

Hi All

I have a copy of a marriage cert where one of the parties were divorced this cert is from 1928.

Note the stamp in the margin.

Yours Aye
BruceL

[gaucho]

Ah ha,

But no relevant records or divorce records...

However, it gives you the catalogue numbers. With these you can contact them for copies.
John