Marion wrote: > I'm pretty sure that divorce was expensive and rare in those days, but is > there way to find evidence if one took place? You are right to surmise divorce was expensive then. It was nothing unusual for couples to go their separate ways and be done with it. Are the couple together in 1901? Or had they already separated? If the couple had separated 7 years earlier and had had no contact with one another, they were able to marry on the presumption of the death of their former spouse under the 7 year rule. In the event of the first spouse reappearing on the scene, no legal action would normally have been taken against any of the parties even though the marriage/s would have been bigamous, but the first (legal) marriage would have stood and the couple would have been expected to resume their marital state as though nothing had happened. Only a fairly small percentage of divorce papers have survived but you could try either FMP (Marital causes database) or the National Archives. If you do find the divorce, the papers can include the names and DoBs of any children, a copy of the marriage cert as well as any addresses the couple lived at and a wealth of other information. One divorce I found appeared to have been contrived because the wife defended her husband's action by saying he'd put her in such a position that she had no choice but to commit adultery! -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk http://www.savethegurkhas.co.uk/