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Despatch to the Governor General from the Secretary of State for the Colonies enclosing an application for a certificate of naturalisation which had been received from Alice Jeanne Amann, formerly resident in the Irish Free State, now resident in Bristol. The Irish Government are asked to supply information to facilitate a decision on the application, 1 November 1924.

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Despatch

Despatch from the Governor General to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 19 January 1925, sending information obtained concerning Alice Jeanne Amann's residence and employment in the Irish Free State and other information requested by the British Government in connection with her application for a certificate of naturalisation.

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Despatch

Despatch from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor General, 3 November 1924, enclosing a copy of the correspondence with Mrs M Sullivan concerning her desire to obtain a copy of her birth certificate. The enclosed correspondence consists of:
A letter from M Sullivan, 27 October [no year] addressed `Please Sir' stating that since neither the Registrar of County Cork nor the Parish Priest can locate a birth certificate for her she is applying to him. She states her maiden name, her mother's maiden name, her god-father's name. She cannot give her exact age but thinks it is 64 or 65; she was 19 when she married in 1879.
A letter in reply to the above from CT Davis, 1 November 1924, stating that he is sending a copy of her letter to the Governor General of the Irish Free State.

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Despatch

Despatch from the Governor General to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 28 November 1924, relating to the desire of Mrs M Sullivan to obtain a copy of her birth certificate. He states the reason why his Ministers are unable to secure any documentary evidence as to the date of Mrs Sullivan's birth and encloses a copy of a circular issued by the Department of Local Government and Public Health, which indicates information accepted in these cases where evidence of age is needed to apply for an old age pension.

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Despatch

Despatch from Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to the Governor General, 30 March, enclosing a copy of the correspondence with Mr Robert Cogan, Shanballymore, County Cork concerning his desire to obtain details of his birth date and the parents' names of Denis, Thomas and Mary Whelan who he states were born about 1820 in the Fermoy district. The enclosed correspondence consists of:
Letter to the Office of Records, London, from Robert Cogan, County Cork, 21 March 1927 for the above information. He states that 3 million in American money depends on it. The letter concludes: `If you find another female Whelan born in Clonakilty about the same time, please state parents names'
Letter in reply stating that a copy of his letter has been forwarded to the Irish Free State Government, 30 March 1927.

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Despatch

Copy of a letter to Reverend Dr Byrne, Archbishop of Dublin from [a representative of the President?], 10 October 1923, enclosing a copy of a confidential Memorandum on Divorce Bills in the Oireachtas. The Memorandum mentions a bill for divorce already presented to the Oireachtas by a Catholic firm of solicitors `on behalf of a Protestant lady seeking a divorce from her Protestant husband, from whom she has already obtained a divorce a `mensa et thoro' in the Irish Courts'.

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Letter

`Report of the Joint Committee on Standing Orders (Private Business) on the Position in Saorstát Éireann of Bills Relating to Matrimonial Matters', 11 July 1924. The report is signed by James Douglas. Number 8 of the report states, for example:
`They also think it right to point out that, should the Oireachtas decide that Bills for divorce a vinculo matrimonii should not be introduced, an anomalous position may arise owing to the fact that, whilst a man domiciled in the Saorstat may change his domicile to England or Northern Ireland and be thereby enabled to obtain divorce with a right to remarry, a woman, who by reason of her marriage is domiciled in the Saorstat cannot, of her own accord, change her domicile and therefore will not be able to obtain a divorce a vinculo matrimonii under any circumstances'.

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Report

Newclipping from an unidentified paper, no date [1924?] advising people who do not want divorce to make their views known to legislators by attending the Catholic Truth Conference in the Mansion House, October 20-24. The conference, the clipping indicates, will include an address to women by the Bishop of Clogher entitled `The Christian Family and its Internal Enemies'.

Divorce

catholicism

Letter to Hugh Kennedy Esq., KC, Law Advisor (marked on top `Copy for President') from Casey, Clay and Collins, 24 January 1923, solicitors `for a lady who has filed a petition in the Irish Free State Court against her husband for restitution of conjugal rights'. This woman intends to apply for an absolute decree of divorce. The letter asks what the intention of the Irish Free State is in relation to matters of divorce.

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Letter

Printed copy of DáilDebate, 11 February 1925, on the topic of private bills for divorce. Professor Thrift brought up the fact that `an aggrieved woman could not obtain a domicile abroad without her husband's consent, so that she would be put under a disability as compared with the man'.

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Debate