Department of Accounting and General Services

DIVORCE CASE FILES OF THE FIRST CIRCUIT COURT.  1848-1892.  20.6 cubic feet in 11 cubic foot and 23 5-inch boxes.  Arranged numerically.  Contains cases 1 through 2415.  Case file 2147 was not transferred to the Archives. Minutes to cases are in the Civil and Criminal Minute Books of the First Circuit Court (Series 198).  All divorce case files have been microfilmed and cataloged as MFL 51.

DIVORCE CASE FILES OF THE SECOND CIRCUIT COURT.  1848-1900; 1915.  3 cubic feet in 3 cubic foot boxes.  Arranged numerically.  Contains cases A1 through A319. Minutes to cases are in the Civil and Criminal Minute Books of the Second Circuit Court (Series 242).  Case files have been microfilmed and cataloged as MFL 54.

DIVORCE CASE FILES OF THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT.  1854-1899.  3 cubic feet in 3 cubic foot boxes.  Arranged numerically.  Contains cases 1 through 424. Minutes to cases are in the Civil and Criminal Minute Books of the Third Circuit Court (Series 244).  Case files dated 1890 to 1899 from the districts of Hamakua, Hilo, and Puna on the island of Hawaii are filed in Divorce Case Files of the Fourth Circuit Court (Series 017).  Case files have been microfilmed and cataloged as MFL 56.

DIVORCE CASE FILES OF THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT.  1890-1899.  1.4 cubic feet in 1 cubic foot and 1 5-inch boxes.  Arranged in two numerical systems: 1890 to 1899 contain cases 1 through 121 (Old Series); 1893 to 1899 contain cases A1 through A45 (A Series).  File numbering systems were established by the Archives in conjunction with the creation of an index to these case files.  Pre 1890 divorces for the districts of Hamakua, Hilo and Puna on the island of Hawaii are filed with Series 015.  Minutes to cases are in the Minute Books of the Fourth Circuit Court (Series 247).  Case files have been microfilmed and cataloged as MFL 58.

DIVORCE CASE FILES OF THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT.  1852-1899.  2 cubic feet in 2 cubic foot boxes.  Arranged numerically.  Contains cases 1 through 206.  Files for cases 190 and 191 were not transferred to the Archives. Minutes to cases are in the Civil and Criminal Minute Books of the Fifth Circuit Court (Series 251). Records in this series dated before 1892 may be identified as Fourth Circuit Court documents.  Kauai and Niihau were designated as the Fourth Circuit prior to 1892.  Divorce case files have been microfilmed and cataloged as MFL 60.