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Anne Lister and Ann Walker's archival legacy
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Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court...
Catalogue reference: J 78
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J 78
The indexes in this series give summary details of divorce and matrimonial causes files raised in the Principal Probate Registry for the years 1858 to 1945 and 1950 to 1958. Cases are entered under the first letter of the petitioner's name and...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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J 78
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Title (The name of the record)
- Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division: Principal Probate Registry: Indexes to Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1858-1958
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Description (What the record is about)
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The indexes in this series give summary details of divorce and matrimonial causes files raised in the Principal Probate Registry for the years 1858 to 1945 and 1950 to 1958. Cases are entered under the first letter of the petitioner's name and indicate the year of registration and the file number given to the papers in the action concerned.
No indexes survive for the years 1946 to 1948. However, brief details of petitions received during that time are recorded in the Divorce Receipt Books also in this series.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
From 1906 the numbers have the following lettered prefixes indicating the type of case concerned:
- HD: Petition by husband for decree of divorce
- WD: Petition by wife for decree of divorce
- HN: Petition by husband for decree of nullity
- WN: Petition by wife for decree of nullity
- HJS: Petition by husband for decree of judicial separation
- WJS: Petition by wife for decree of judicial separation
- HRCR: Petition by husband for decree of restitution of conjugal rights
- WRCR: Petition by wife for decree of restitution of conjugal rights
- Legit: Petition for declaration of legitimacy
- Div Ct: Appeal to Divisional Court from Justices
- Prot: Application for order for protection of wife's earnings and property
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, 1858-1875
- Supreme Court of Judicature, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, 1875-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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42 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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After 1937 only a representative selection/sample of files are being preserved.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9686/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
310,599 records
Within the department: J
Records of the Supreme Court of Judicature and related courts
You are currently looking at the series: J 78
Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division: Principal Probate Registry: Indexes to Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Files
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