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From: "Dora Smith" <>
Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] divorce
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 08:28:05 -0500
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I was told my great grandfather divorced my great grandmother in Boston
around 1910. More details emerge; great grandfather ran away and hid from
her for the rest of his life! I doubt this was because there was a legal
dissolution to the marriage.

I'm sure that if there was a divorce the records would be with teh court
clerk of whatever court was in charge of divorce.

Divorce was frowned on, but I suspect it could matter where you were; in the
area on the eastern side of Lake George, in New York State (counties changed
over time), people seemed to be divorcing right and left!

I think it was more common, where there was real cause (as there was in my
great grandparents' case), or even if there wasn't, for one party to simply
leave - and hide. They didn't have the Internet nor interstate
cooperation for tracking people. Alot of people disappeared across town!

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, Texas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eliane en John Heseltine" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 3:10 AM
Subject: [MAWORCES] divorce


> Hello all,
> Can anyone tell me if divorce was accepted in Worcester County around
1910,
> or if it was still frowned upon? Would there be any records of divorces?
> My husband was always told that his grandfather, Jerome Gareaux, went
> missing, presumed drowned, just before his mother was born in Worcester,
in
> 1912. However, we have found that a Jerome Gareaux, of approximately the
> same age and the same profession, married again in Rhode Island in the
> 1920´s. So now we are wondering whether he was a bigamist, or whether they
> got a divorce, and the story about him dissappearing was cooked up in the
> family to prevent grandmother Emmie from the ´shame´ of divorce. She
> returned to Yorkshire, England, and died in 1933.
> Eliane Heseltine
> Zoetermeer
> The Netherlands
>
>
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