>Query was > >Can anyone tell me where I may find records of marriages performed by George >Whittaker, Esq. in 1855? Would there be a marriage license at the courthouse? > Thank you. > (Steve Kemp adds:) Not aware of any list of marriages performed by any Justices of the Peace having been compiled, nor have I heard of any records of the activities of justices or magistrates from any early period still extant. Marriage licenses were never required by the county until the state mandated the process to start up in 1885. Many marriages were published in the newspapers but there are no compilations except the one that J. Simpson Africa put in his HISTORY, which ends in 1830.