Paula, ALL the marriages recorded at the court house prior to 1866 (only one register) have been abstracted and posted on our web site. A quick look there shows: Fields, John M. Tison, Fanny Ann Dec. 24, 1858 Jesse Baker This register covers 1851-1866 and is in "paragraph" format; the name in my 4th column was the performing official--a minister or a justice of the peace. Many marriages were not registered at all by the officials, because they had to go all the way into Greenville to do it. For the same reason, many were registered "after the fact," especially during the Civil War; the ministers may have remembered the date a little off. Still, the register is a great record and Pitt Co. is lucky to have ANY records prior to the 1858 fire! Betsy On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 7:42 PM, Paula Baker wrote: > I was so excited I got the name wrong. It was John M. Fields, maybe a son of Bennett Fields who married a Fannie Tyson in Pitt county. > > > Paula Baker > Researching Cole, Wilkerson, Norman, and White in Georgia, South Carolina, and Louisiana and > Baker, Tyson, Manning, and Stocks in North Carolina > > --------------------------------- > > What are the most popular cars? Find out at Yahoo! Autos > > > ==== NC-PCFR Mailing List ==== > Post to this mail list at: [email protected] > Visit the PCFR website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpcfr > Browse our rich collection of old family photographs, private documents, and public records. > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 >