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Subject: Re: [ILLASALLE] Re: Cost of a Marriage Cert
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 11:13:49 -0500
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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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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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