Not the best news to hear
In the local press 23 March 1943 [Hobart]
Grace George petitioned for divorce from
John Joseph George for desertion. A Mr Piggott (instructed by Johnson, Mitchell, and
Laughton) represented the wife, Mrs George. She said she married John Joseph in 1909, and things went well until 1939. She said her husband wént to
Launceston for health reasons, and
in the following month she read in
the Press that he had been charged
with bigamy.
Apparently he married a neighbour whilst still married to Grace. But that would need validating.
Geoff
