Name: Lilias Caroline Leslie [Lilias Caroline Drummond]
Gender: Female
Record Type: Divorce
Type: Wife's petition for/of nullity [WN]
Petition Date: 1904
Spouse: John Cuthbert Port Leslie
Divorce Court File Number: 4787
Source Citation: The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, later Supreme Court of Judicature: Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Files, J 77; Reference Number: J 77/815/4787
Source Information: Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Civil Divorce Records, 1858-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Original data: Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, later Supreme Court of Judicature: Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Files, 1858–2002. J 77. Records of the Family Division and predecessors. Records of the Supreme Court of Judicature and related courts. The National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England. Images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England.
Lilias divorced her first husband John Leslie in 1904. It was finalized in 1905. You can see the 26 page divorce documents here. She claimed he couldn't consumate the marriage and he claimed she wouldn't let him. There was some concern expressed concerning possible claims against him monetarily.
Submitted by Richard Hungerford at 9:09 AM on January 8, 2020.