In a message dated 10/29/1998 6:20:57 PM Central Standard Time, MCURRIN@worldnet.att.net writes: << For the early marriage data, is there a record which shows the parents of the bridge and groom? >> For Davidson County marriages before about 1816 there is usually only a bond. Beginning in 1816, a marriage record most often has both the bond and license. I am sure a signed record of parental permission was required for marriages of persons below the legal age in this time period. However it is very rare for a record of this type to have survived. Sometimes the bondsman is also a parent of one of the couple but relationship of the bondsman is not given on the marriage bond. Debie