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Subject: Re: [MAESSEX] What is official date of marriage intention?
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:07:23 -0400
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I wonder if it could have been someone trying to catch up on keeping records! :)
It might be interesting to know what was going on at that time -- a war?
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>I had always thought that the certificate referred to the marriage >certificate.
That's what I thought until we got into the records further where the marriages were listed and we found the marriages listed for the intentions listed earlier.
John
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> >From: D Welch <>
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> >
> >I am under the impression that the intention, or publishing of banns,
> >would have been three weeks in succession, then the marriage could go
> >forth. The certification may have been that the intentions had been duly
> >published.
> >
> >Daisy Pickman Welch
> >
> >John Slaughter wrote:
> >> Good morning, everyone. :-)
> >> We are beginning the transcription of the Townsend vital records.
> >> We're trying to figure out just what is the official date of a
> >> marriage intention.
> >>> From the Townsend records we have:
> >> May 13 1791 then Recd the Names of Lemuel Patts junr of Townsend
> >> and Milly Woods of Pepperel With their Intentions of Marriage
> >> - Certificate given June 6 1791
> >>
> >> What is the official date? May 13th or June 6th?
> >> Also from Townsend, we find their marriage:
> >> June 13 -- Leml Potts jr of Townsend & Milley Woods of Pepperl
> >>
> >> Cross checking the Pepperell records, we find:
> >> Lemuel Pratt, Jr., of Townsend, and Millie Woods, int. May 21, 1791.
> >> Samuel Petts, Jr. [Lemuel. int.] of Townsend, and Milley Wood, at
> >> Townsend, June 13, 1791.*
> >> Milley Wood and Samuel [Lemuel. int.] Petts, Jr., of Townsend, at
> >> Townsend, June 13, 1791.*
> >>
> >> The Pepperell records show the intentios as being between the date
> >> received and the date the certificate was given in the Townsend
> >> records. So, which date is official? The date received or the date the
> >> certificate was issued? In our times, it would be the date of the
> >> certificate.
> >>
> >> Thank you.
> >>
> >> John Slaughter
> >> In loving memory of our son, Brennan. 11/10/88-5/31/01.
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