In message <e99944ee0412170744425329d7@mail.gmail.com>, Jean Normington <bejaynorm68@gmail.com> writes >>From my g. uncles army records (1902 - 1914) I found that he was >married in 1909 and had a son born a year later in 1910. However, >also on this army record is an entry which says "Wife struck off >....followed by 2 words I cannot read" and the date 9.8.12. >I spent £6 on the Scotland's people website and found a marriage >certificate for him giving his status as "divorced". (well worth the >money!!) > >I thought it was very difficult for people to divorce at this time, It was indeed, and normally not worth the effort,. His wife must have done something really bad, to offend him enough to feel that only a dovorce would do. Things had eased very slightly by 1913, for men anyway, but it was sttyill uncommon (till the late 1940s) If a divorce happened, then there will be the official record. AND it could be worth investigating either the local papers or a much raker like the News of the World, since such an event had scarcity value then. -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society