Research Catalog

Title

The marriage knot : marriage and divorce in colonial Western Australia, 1829 - 1900 / Penelope Hetherington.

Author

Hetherington, Penelope.

Publication

Crawley, W.A. : UWA Publishing, 2012.

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Description

192, xi, [8] p. of plates; 24 cm.

Summary

Looks at religious arrangements & disagreements in first 30years of the colony, kinds of marriage registration instigated by government & other aspects of its marriage laws. Analyses divorce petitions by men & women from 1863 to 1900, examines importance of 1892 Married Womens Property Act, & other laws passed towards end of the century.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Marriage > Western Australia > History > 20th century
• Divorce > Western Australia > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-192).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The English background -- 2. Church of England dominance -- 3. Marriage practice, 1829-41 -- 4. The Church Buildings Act, 1840 -- 5. First marriage laws, 1841 -- 6. Changes to marriage laws, 1847 -- 7. Towards a solution, 1849 -- 8. Marriage problems settled, 1856 -- 9. Divorce law, 1863 -- 10. Divorce law and the courts, 1863-79 -- 11. Divorce law and the courts, 1880-89 -- 12. Divorce law and the courts, 1890-99.

ISBN

• 9781742585215 (pbk)
• 1742585213 (pbk)

OCLC

• 826651044
• SCSB-11060540

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library