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From: HILARY BLANFORD <>
Subject: Re: [DEV] Divorce Law in 1847 - Convicts in Australia
Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 15:55:31 +0100 (BST)
In-Reply-To: <3B8C1D8B5869442588143DBB0E1CB575@ownerc311a87e2>


Please would you let us have the reference for whatever legislation there was to cover this eventuality. The only other supporting evidence I have ever seen in this context is reference to a 'poor man's divorce' - ie 7 years disappearance.
Many thanks
HB

--- On Sun, 8/5/11, Marie McCulloch <> wrote:

> From: Marie McCulloch <>
> Subject: Re: [DEV] Divorce Law in 1847 - Convicts in Australia
> To: ,
> Date: Sunday, 8 May, 2011, 0:20
> When someone was transported to
> Australia then the spouse was at liberty to
> remarry as the convict was not going to come back - there
> may have been a
> time limit but usually not. The same for the convict in
> Australia was
> allowed to remarry after application to the Governor as
> there was little
> hope of the spouse coming to Australia.
>
> Some convicts did apply to have their family brought out to
> Australia but
> not many and few had it happen.
>
> You did not have to get a divorce.
>
> Marie
> Australia
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 7:57 AM
> Subject: [DEV] Divorce Law in 1847 - Convicts in Australia
>
>
> Hello
>
> Can anyone answer this please?
>
> If someone was transported to Australia and left dependents
> in the UK what
> were the divorce laws in 1847?
>
> I have come across someone who has declared herself as
> single in the 1851
> census when her husband had been transported to Australia
> in 1847. Does
> anyone  know how can I find out if she applied to be
> divorced?
>
> He later married in Australia and she married in the UK in
> 1859.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> Angela
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