Marital Breakdown in Scotland, 1684-1832

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The aim of the project was to transcribe and analyse the records of all cases of divorce, separation and annulment in the Edinburgh Commissary Court between 1684 and 1832 (the period for which registers of extracted decreets are available).

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The data consist of transcriptions of the gist of all successful and unsuccessful cases of divorce, separation, nullity and simple adherence in the process papers and registers of decreets for the Edinburgh Commissary Court between 1684 and 1832. Topics covered include marital breakdown and domestic violence.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-3628-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=5848fab3bffef2ea14688ffdcbe84c38a9ba22336d20a84083025503798ba86a
Provenance
Creator Leneman, L., University of Edinburgh, Department of Economic and Social History
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 1997
Funding Reference Economic and Social Research Council
Rights Copyright L. Leneman; <p>The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>.</p><p>Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.</p>
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Representation
Resource Type Text
Discipline History; Humanities
Spatial Coverage Scotland