Category: Dublin Divorces
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The Divorce of a Deputy Crier, 1885-91
From the Freeman’s Journal, 10 November 1885: “PROBATE AND MATRIMONIAL DIVISION Before the Right Hon Judge Warren, and a Common Jury CARNEGIE V CARNEGIE – This was a suit by the wife for a divorce a mensa et thoro, on the grounds of cruelty. The petitioner is Phoebe Louisa Carnegie,…
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The Marital Misadventures of a Master of the Rotunda, 1890
“On Saturday in the Exchequer Division, the application for an attachment sought by a Mr Lynch (plaintiff in an action for criminal conversation, in which Dr Macan, of Merrion Square, and late of the Rotunda Hospital, is defendant) against the editors of the Medical Press and the Evening Mail, came…
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Mr Bushe BL Elopes, 1885
From the Weekly Freeman, 5 June 1886: “ARISTOCRATIC DIVORCE CASE FROM IRELAND. Mr. Gerald Brooke applied to have his marriage annulled in consequence of [his wife’s] infidelity with Mr. Seymour Bushe, barrister, Dublin… on Friday, 3rd October 1885, unfortunate unpleasantness arose about a comparatively insignificant tiff about a pet dog—at…