Divorce in the 1800s

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Member Since: February 2004 Posts: 6,440 Send Message	An Olde Crone	Report	27 Feb 2005 23:26
	Brenda Yes, of course, but it is still a minute amount isn't it, and therefore divorce is hardly worth considering when looking for a vanished relative before this time. I was very surprised at this, I did realise that' Not Many People' got divorced, but if I had had to guess at a number it would probably have been thousands, rather than hundreds. Marjorie
Member Since: June 2004 Posts: 3,470 Send Message	Phoenix	Report	27 Feb 2005 23:02
Member Since: June 2004 Posts: 3,470 Send Message	Well, wouldn't each one have had to have been by an Act of Parliament at that stage? I agree, though, that nobody has ever put it quite so starkly as that.
Member Since: February 2004 Posts: 6,440 Send Message	An Olde Crone	Report	27 Feb 2005 22:55
	The total number of divorces which had EVER been granted in England was 330 in the year 1858. Thats even less than I had imagined. Marjorie