Not to cast any shadows on your grandparents, but if he were serving time for something and they wanted to get married for practical reasons, a jailhouse marriage is not unheard of. There have been several in our small county so I imagine Manhattan would be no different. ...Kathleen ----- Original Message ----- From: <YoAHop@aol.com> To: <GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 12:26 PM Subject: I think I have a mystery > Hi Listers, > > I have a copy of my grandparents marriage certificate that has me puzzled. > Hopefully, someone will be able to come up with some ideas as to what course > I should take. My grandparents were married in > June, 1908 in the borough of Manhattan. On the certificate where it has the > location of the marriage it says Tombs Prison (at least that's what the > handwriting looks like). I have had it enlarged hoping to make it clearer > but it didn't help. Has anyone ever heard of this? Did they allow marriages > in Prison in 1908? Is there any way this can be verified? Help!!! > > Adrienne > > > ==== GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES Mailing List ==== > Please consider becoming a Rootsweb contributor. > > ============================== > Ancestry.com now has more than 200,000 subscribers! To celebrate, > access to ALL of Ancestry.com will be free from July 18 to July 31! > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/freepromo.asp?sourcecode=A11AM > >