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From: "Fred Olive" <>
Subject: RE: [APG] how to indicate marriage license contains error
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:14:38 -0600
In-Reply-To: <200603282124.k2SLOI1W018764@mail.rootsweb.com>


This is from a bound volume of Marriage Records
located in the Jefferson County, AL courthouse. The
underlining I used to indicate I removed the names of
the individual rather than the names were not readable. I
should have made that clear.

From the Pre-printed sheet entitled Marriage Record I
quoted from the section of the page entitled
Marriage License. This section is where the minister
certifies he solemnized the marriage and signed his
name. This sounds like what Richard Pence called a
Minister's Return.

The other sections on the page are Marriage Bond,
Marriage, Affidavit in the Office of the Commissioner
of Liceneses of Said County, and Commissioner of
Licenses.

The signatures on the document of the minister, the
commissioner of licenses, the physician, the 2
people signing the bond (the male in the couple to
be married and another family member) seem to be
their own signature rather than copies by another
person.

Would it be considered reasonable to assume they
married in Fairfax, Chambers County (about 100
miles from Jefferson County) and then they went to
Jefferson County and recorded the marriage.

Thank you of you who have help in this effort.
Fred Olive
We know they had a minister friend in Fairfax and
the couple would reside in Jefferson County.
Fred





On 28 Mar 2006 at 15:23, Mills wrote:

Date sent: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:23:23 -0600
From: "Mills" <>
To:
Subject: RE: [APG] how to indicate marriage license contains error

> Fred wrote:
> Marriage license states
> >The State of Alabama, Jefferson County.
> "This certifies that I have solemnized Marriage between
> Mr. [name] and M [name] according to law, at Fairfax in
> said County and state, on the _____ day of [month]
> 193_."
> >The town of Fairfax is not in Jefferson County, AL.
>
> Fred, are you looking at the original marriage license? Or a recorded copy?
> Or a certificate someone filled in, copying info from the recorded copy of
> the original? Or an abstract someone has published or circulated or put
> online?
>
> Considering the blanks you left in the above extract of the document, there
> would appear to be some difficulties in reading the script. If you are
> indeed examining a photocopy of the original, could it possibly be
> FairFIELD--a well-known Jefferson County site?
>
> According to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (http://geonames.usgs.gov/)
> the only "Fairfax" sites ever identified for Alabama are all in Chambers
> County. As others have pointed out, that is nowhere near Jefferson County,
> so we're not dealing with a county-boundary change (which you also should
> not be dealing with anyway amid research in the 1930s).
>
> The GNIS data for Alabama was compiled by W. Craig Remington, Cartographic
> Research Laboratory Director at the University of Alabama. It's hard to find
> an Alabama site that Remington missed. (Indeed, he is so good at identifying
> historic sites that he has done much of the GNIS work for other states as
> well.)
>
> Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG
> Tuscaloosa, Alabama
>
> ______________________________


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