In a message dated 8/10/01 7:36:19 AM Mountain Daylight Time, joenstephanie@rocketmail.com writes: << The earliest I've seen information on an Illinois wedding license pertaining to the parents of the bride and groom (except when one party is underage) is about 1904. Is this about standard for the state? What's the earliest anyone has seen in Illinois? >> Hi nancy, I have on from 1868 in Cass County. Regards, Jack

I have an 1837 marriage in Morgan County, the mother of the groom gave permission, the father of bride gave permission. Both under age. If of age, doubtful if the parents will be listed that early as it wasn't required by law until much, much later (1916). Mary Ann At 02:14 PM 8/10/2001 -0400, you wrote: >In a message dated 8/10/01 7:36:19 AM Mountain Daylight Time, >joenstephanie@rocketmail.com writes: > ><< The earliest I've seen information on an Illinois wedding license > pertaining to the parents of the bride and groom (except when one party > is underage) is about 1904. Is this about standard for the state? What's > the earliest anyone has seen in Illinois? > >> >Hi nancy, > >I have on from 1868 in Cass County. > >Regards, >Jack > > >==== ILMAGA Mailing List ==== >Morgan Area Genealogical Association and Wavery Genealogical & Historical >Society >are the proud sponsors of MAGA Web site and the generous contributors of >most of the free resources. Our thanks to both organizations! --------------------------------------------------- Mary Ann Kaylor MY FAMILY GENEALOGY http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~makaylor/index.html CONVERSE CONNECTIONS http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~converse/index.html CONVERSE MAIL LIST Adminstrator TEDROW MAIL LIST Administrator KAYLOR MAIL LIST - To subscribe, please review KAYLOR MAIL LIST GUIDELINES: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~zimzip/kaylor/maillist/