I have an 1834 Marriage record from Morgan Co. IL that has an affadavit from the grooms mother stating the groom has permission to marry. He was 20 years old. This was a major find for me because it gave me the mothers' remarried name, which I hadn't been able to determine. Opened doors for the next 30 years, in fact. Mary Ann At 10:44 PM 1/11/99 -0800, you wrote: >Cathy, >The 1859 marriage records do not list the parents names. But in most >cases will list the minister, or Justice of the Peace who performed the >marriage, and the county recorder who recorded it. Possibly also the >residence of either bride or groom if they were from out of the county, >for example "John Brown of Montgomery Co. Illinois and Miss Jane Jones >were united...". At one time it was a common practice to list a bondmen >on the marriage record for the bride if she were underaged. But as far >as I know by 1840 or so the practice of actually recording the name of >the bondsman on the marriage record itself was beginning to be dropped. >It would seem though that if the bride or groom were legally underage to >be married then there must have been some legal way of showing to the >county court that permission had been granted by the parents for the >marriage. Even so it seems that if that permission were there, then it >was not found necessary by the county court to be recorded on the >marriage record, as in the past it had once been found necessary to >record. > >A marriage record of 1859 will have name of parties being married, >minister's record that he married the parties on such and such date, and >recorders record that such and such marriage was entered into the county >record book on such and such a date. > >I should also mention that women previously married would often be >listed, for example, as, "John Jones and Mrs. Jane Smith were united..." >This indicates the husband of the bride was dead or divorced. But often >as not a woman previously married could be listed as Jane Smith with no >indication of her previous marriage. Yet it is also found in some cases >that if her first marriage were of short duration, she might revert back >to her maiden name. Discerning all these possibilities are the work of >the genealogist. If you don't actually know much about the bride or >groom, look back in the records of where your ancestos lived for earlier >marriages. If you find John Jones married Jane Smith, make sure her >maiden name is Smith and that Smith was not her previous married name, >that way you should be able to connect her to her parents. > >Jim Windsor > > >==== ILMACOUP Mailing List ==== >Macoupin County Books that may be of interest: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/m_pubook.htm >Macoupin County Books and Cemetery Listings for sale: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/m_bksale.htm > > > County Coordinator & List Manager Jersey Co ILGenWeb