At 07:18 PM 9/20/97 -0400, you wrote: >Would be very interested in obtaining copies of the marriage records for >Robert, Mary, Nancy and Melissa Needham. Can you help me with this. Also is >there any chance that there would be additional names on the Marriage of E. >Dunn and J. Byxbe such as witnesses or parents names? Is that the marriage >application for them or an application? Or both? >Where are these records located? >Thanks >Annemarie > > > All the records are from the Fayette County Illinois Marriage Record Vol. 1 (1821-1877), and Vol 2 (1878-1898), published by the Fayette County Genealogical and Historical Society, Box 177, Vandalia, Il 62471-0177. Each volume is available for purchase for $35. James M. Schumaker 27 machinist res Shobonier b Tenn p Wm Shumaker and Lizzie Staten and Melissa NEEDHAM 18 res Shobonier b Ky p Wm.A. Needham and Elizabeth Dunn married 16 OCt 1879 at Shobonier by J.F.Kennedy JP witnesses Elizabeth Needham, Mary Shores. ELizabeth Needham gave consent. (A 37) Robert Needham, age 24 and Zelphia A. Cupinall, age 17, both of Shobonier, license 14 Dec, 1877, Married 16 Dec, 1877, person performing marriage missing, no affirmation or consent in package. License returned 21 Dec. 1877 (Book Old B, p.19, l.14, No.823) J.Fred Schorer, age 21, and Mary E. Needham, age 21, license 22 Aug.,1876. J.Fred Sherer?Schorer? made affirmation, married 27 Aug. 1876, by W.F.Davis, M.G. at Shobonier. License returned 27 Aug. 1876 (Bool Old B, p.12, l.18, No.518) [his name is spelled several ways, with and without the c, with an r on the end or an s] Frederick Blue, age 23, and Nancy Neadham, age 16, license 22 Feb. 1876, married 23 Feb, 1876 by Joseph Gordon, M.G. Fred Blue made affirmation of age. ELizabeth Needham, mother gave consent. License returned 29 Feb.,1876. Both Kaskaskia Twp. (Book Old B, p.9,l.10. No.423) Joseph T. Byxbe and Elizabeth Dunn. License 27 Aug., 1863, both of age, Married 27 Aug, 1863 by J.W.Ross, J.P. Joseph (X) Byxbe made affirmation. (Book Old A, p. 83, l.26) I can find no other Byxbe, Or Bixby, or anything I can come up with that would be similar. This last record is before parents' names were included. Judy Lanclos Highland, CA