Texas Marriages, 1851-1900 (Update adding Bowie, Cooke, Crockett, Deaf Smith, Hopkins, Irion, Nolan, and Van Zandt counties) http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4325.htm Bowie County: Bowie County was formed in 1841 from Red River County. The records from the county in this database cover the years 1888 through 1899. Original data: Bowie County, Texas Marriages, 1888-99. County court records located at New Boston, Texas or Family History Library microfilm #1839644 and #1839950. Establishing an important family relationship, marriage records can be among the most informative type of records available to family historians. This database is a collection of marriage records from several counties in Texas in the latter half of the nineteenth century. This update adds marriage records from Bowie, Cooke, Crockett, Deaf Smith, Hopkins, Irion, Nolan, and Van Zandt counties to those from Atascosa, Comanche, Denton, Erath, Frio, Glasscock, Hunt, Kendall, Lipscomb, Llano, Newton, Pecos, Rains, Runnels, Rusk, Somervell, and Wheeler counties. Taken from microfilm copies of original county documents, each record provides spouses' names, marriage date, and county of residence. Source Information: Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Texas Marriages, 1851-1900. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001. Original data: See the Extended Description at the URL below for original data sources listed by county. <A HREF="http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4325.htm">Search this database.</A>