IN my gathering of information for my website www.nyvagenealogy.homestead.com I have found that a marriage bond can be found in 3 places. The place the Event happened. The brides parish. The place where the minister resides, or where he turned his records in. And the closer you get to 1856 and the present the better chances of it being in a newspaper. Kristina In a message dated 9/30/2003 7:43:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, pauldrake@charter.net writes: Can anyone help with this question? I have a copy of an 1842 Va. Marriage Bond. Would there have existed any other document relating to the marriage - a license or consent? The man was 44 and the bride 14. If so, where might it be found? At the county courthouse? Or the Va. State Archives? I'm hoping such a document will provide the names of the parents of the couple. Doris *******