Re: Marriage dissoltion

On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:53:09 +0100, Frank Erskine
<frank.erskine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On a (UK) marriage certificate which I hold, the groom is shown as
Bachelor, but the bride is shown as "Previous Marriage Dissolved"
(presumably that just means "divorced").

Will the registrar be likely to have details of the previous
marriage/divorce, even though it took place in Egypt, or would they
just give it the nod since there was no UK record of previous
marriage?

The bride was British, but was teaching in Egypt at the time of her
first marriage. As far as I'm aware, her "ex" never came back to
England with her.

Her second marriage took place in 1955, btw, in an RC church but with
a civil registrar present.

IIRC a previously-married person re-marrying in any UK jurisdiction
now has to produce documentary evidence of whatever ended the previous
marriage but does not need to show evidence of the start of any
previous marriage. A quick scan of the Marriage Act 1949 (England and
Wales) does not seem to show any specific mention of such
documentation being required so it seems to post-date that Act, not
necessarily in primary legislation.
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