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From: "nredell" <>
Subject: Re: [ILLASALLE] Re: Cost of a Marriage Cert
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 08:50:09 -0800
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Thank you for this information. I don't know where my couple married.
Nana
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Subject: Re: [ILLASALLE] Re: Cost of a Marriage Cert


> Marriages before 1877 only give the date, bride and grooms name and who
> married them. If they are under age a permission may be recorded. The
> Genealogy Guild only charges a quarter for a copy. The church record may
> give parents names if you know what church they were married in. The
> Genealogy Guild has some of the records of the catholic churches and other
> churches in the county.
> Jenan Jobst LaSalle County Genealogy
> Guild
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> Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 9:03 AM
> Subject: [ILLASALLE] Re: Cost of a Marriage Cert
>
>
>>
>> Bonnie -
>>
>> If someone replies to this question off-list, please post the answer here
>> for all to see. I've been searching to the answer to this question as
> well. I
>> believe we had a very large discussion about this on the Bureau County
> list
>> a number of years ago.
>>
>> I also have an ancestor who married young. When she married in 1885,
>> she
>> was just 14 years old, but gave her age as 15 on the certificate. I
> believe
>> her maternal grandmother gave permission for her marriage, although the
> record
>> is somewhat unclear about that. Another relative married in 1874 at the
> age
>> of 14 with the permission granted by her mother (father was deceased).
>> Although these are decades after your 1858 marriage, it does appear that
> at this
>> time, marriages could take place at that age as long as the adult with
>> responsibility for their care, gave permission for the marriage to take
> place.
>>
>> Shelly
>>
>> Thanks Tim.
>>
>> What was Illinois legal age for marriage in 1858? One of the girls was
> only
>> fourteen when she was married (unheard of, at least in the bride's
> family)
>> but I suspect she married without parental permission. The groom, age
> 21
>> was a farmer's son from Putnam Co. She was a farmer's daughter from
> LaSalle
>> Co. and they were married in Livingston Co. perhaps in order to hide the
>> marriage from her father.
>>
>> Bonnie
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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