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From: "T.M. Sommers" <>
Subject: Re: [Maryland] Marriage Information
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:30:26 -0500
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Suzanne Weise wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2007, at 3:12 AM, T.M. Sommers wrote:
>> Suzanne Weise wrote:
>>
>>> I have recently found a marriage announcement in the Baltimore Sun
>>> for Nov. 12, 1849 in which it is stated that Jose De J. XIQUES and
>>> Susannah Grace LEWIS were married by "Mr. Hickey"--no other
>>> information is given. I know that this is a question, perhaps too
>>> far out on the limb, but would anyone perhaps know if this meant
>>> that Mr. Hickey was a justice of the peace since no church was
>>> mentioned?
>>
>> No. I've almost never seen a church mentioned in early marriage
>> notices, or in the marriage indexes in the state archives, and civil
>> marriages did not exist until 1963. You can look him up in Edna
>> Kanely's _Directory of Maryland Ministers_, though.
>
> Thank you very much for the suggestion. Can you tell me where
> I might
> find this Directory as I am living in Massachusetts.

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Thomas M. Sommers -- -- AB2SB

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