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Image Citation: The National Archives; London, England, UK; Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, later Supreme Court of Judicature: Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Files, J 77; Reference Number: J 77/715/1722; Series Number: J 77; Piece Number: 715

Image Description: The marriage certificate for Mary Alice and John Burke’s second marriage on 15 February 1896 from the divorce case file J 77/715/1722

...had deserted him in September 1900 after informing him that ‘she did not intend to live with him again’. If you’d like to find out what happened next, and why we saw Mary Alice and John Burke back in the Divorce Court you can read our latest blog here shorturl.at/F6F80 (16/16)

...Restitution of Conjugal Rights on the grounds of her husband's desertion and failure to render conjugal rights. Less than a month later, on 3 April 1901, John himself filed a petition for a divorce in which he made a counter allegation that he had not deserted his wife, and in fact she...(15/16)

...remarriage they lived together at 30 Bramham Gardens, Kensington, London and on 9 October 1897 they welcomed a daughter, Yvonne Lilian Gervaise Burke. On 11 March 1901, when John Lawrence was ten years old and Yvonne Lilian Gervaise age four, Mary Alice filed a petition for a Decree of...(14/16)

...clear they were divorcees. This creative interpretation of their legal status was not unheard of, although it is not clear whether they were seeking to deceive people with regard to their marital status or just putting the ‘best’ spin on their circumstances. After John and Mary Alice’s...(13/16)

...decided to remarry. The marriage took place at the Register Office in the District of St George in Hanover Square London. The marriage certificate reveals some potentially misleading details, with John describing himself as a Bachelor and Mary Alice as a Widow, rather than making it... (12/16)

...1895, John and Mary Alice’s marriage formally ended when a decree absolute was granted. This should have been the end of the story for John and Mary Alice and the end of their joint involvement with the Divorce Court, but, just over four months later, on 15 February 1896, they... (11/16)

...March 1895 the case went to trial at the Divorce Court in front of The Right Honourable Sir Francis Henry Jeune, who found Mary Alice guilty of adultery with Francis Balfour Carr, and granted John a decree nisi and custody of their child John Lawrence. A few months later on 8 October...(10/16)

...years. As a husband petitioning for a divorce, John only had to prove his wife’s adultery, which he alleged took place ‘during the month of September 1894’ at the Hotel de la Plage in the Republic of France and on the 6 and 7 of October 1894 at 27 Craven Street, Strand, Middlesex. On 26...(9/16)