Hi Nora, > Just me thinking out loud . . . > Maybe your Mom moved from Manhattan to the new apartment in the Bronx before they got married, so she used that address? This way she could start buying or moving furniture and boxes into it? And then they still got married at the church in Manhattan because that had been her 'parish'? > Maybe she told you that she lived in Manhattan (probably with her parents) because back then, that's what single girls were expected to do, and not live on their own. My Mom would have told me the same thing! > Before I got married in 1966, I rented our first apartment on Sept 1st, but we weren't getting married until the 24th. He lived with 2 other guys in a rented home out on LI, and I still lived at home - neither one of us moving in the apartment until after the marriage. And that was in 1966 - not the 40's! > Kathleen New Canaan, CT. > From: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) Subject: marriage certificates Hi listers, Just want to make a comment on my experience with finding my parents' marriage certificate. My parents were married Feb 11, 1942 at St. Paul the Apostle Church around 59th Street in Manhattan. I always knew that so when I tried to get a copy of the marriage certificate I was surprised when I got back a "no certificate was found". I knew my mother was living in Manhattan at the time of the marriage so what was the issue? I suggested that a search should be done in the Bronx since that's were they lived after the marriage. Imagine my surprise when I received the certificate that my mother had as her address was the first apartment she and my father had in the Bronx. When I was getting married in the Bronx in 1974, my future husband and I applied for our marriage license in Mount Vernon, NY even though I lived in the Bronx. I had put down my Bronx address. It's a state license so my address shouldn't have mattered and it didn't. My question is, in the early 1940s did you have to live in the boro where you applied for the marriage license? I'm just trying to understand why my mother put the Bronx address on the marriage application and not her Manhattan address. Nora Hopkins FitzGerald