“NOT IGNORANT”
GIRL AND MARRIAGE
DIVORCE UPSET
LONDON, Dec.-31. According to the Rome correspondent of the Daily News, the Rota has quashed the Westminster Catholic Diocesan Court’s decision annulling' the marriage of Gillian Margaret Bonham-Oarter to Hugh Bonham Carter, an underwriter at Lloyd’s, because her consent at the wedding was not full and perfect. " She petitioned the Westminster Court in 1925, after a civil .divorce in 1923. She had been married . t the age of 20, according to the utes of the Anglican Church, but the reason why she applied to the Catholic Church was not explained. The application was based on evidence that she did, not realise the import of matrimony, having lost her mother in her childhood, and having been brought up by a strict Scottish grandmother. . The petitioner s cousin said that nobody enlightened her, wluch was not extraordinary, since English crirls customarily married without b o ino- informed on such matters. The Westminster Court accepted these statements, but the Rota held that since the church formula outlined the objects of marriage such ignorance could not be presumed m a young woman of mature years-
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10308, 18 January 1927, Page 5
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188“NOT IGNORANT” Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10308, 18 January 1927, Page 5
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