Divorce, 1930

DERBYSHIRE DIVORCE CASES.

ELEVEN PETITIONS GRANTED AT THE ASSIZES.

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Eleven divorce petitions were dealt with by Mr. Justice Mackinnon at the Derbyshire Assizes to-day.

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Pioletta [sic] Evelyn Thompson, hotel bookkeeper of Warwick, who married Edward Cecil Thompson, of High-street, Derby, at Gainsborough, in 1923 [sic], said she would have brought proceedings earlier, quoting Lilian Ada R. Harvey, of Derby, as co-respondent, but she had not the means to do so. A decree was granted.

(Nottingham Evening Post, 15th November 1930)

Tangled lives at Derby

TANGLED LIVES AT DERBY.

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Mr. Justice MacKinnon dealt with 11 divorce cases at the Derbyshire Assizes on Saturday.

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A decree was granted to Mrs. Violetta Evelyn Thompson, of the Lord Leycester Hotel, Warwick, against her husband, Edwin [sic] Cecil Thompson, of High-street, Derby. The parties were married at Gainsborough in 1913, and there was one child [Evelyn May (Thompson) Wallace].

(Nottingham Journal, 17th November 1930)