Register of Corrected Entries - Marriages (for Divorces up to 1984)

If a couple who married in Scotland got divorced in Scotland prior to 1 May 1984 this was recorded in the Register of Corrected Entries (later the Register of Corrections, Etc). A cross-reference to the RCE was added to their entry in the Statutory Register of Marriages.

This procedure was discontinued after 1 May 1984 with the introduction of the Statutory Register of Divorces.

In this example from the 1921 Statutory Register of Marriages for the registration district of Stirling the top entry has divorce and the reference to the RCE volume and page added to the left-hand margin.

The RCE entry shows that the decree of divorce was granted on 8 November 1940.