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From: "Mike and Mary Palmer" <>
Subject: Re: [Bklyn] Elopement/quick divorce locations?
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 16:56:34 -0400
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I don't know where people went for East Coast divorces, but Elkton, Maryland
used to be popular for elopements. ~
Mary Palmer, NJ

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From: "Pam Jeter" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 4:37 PM
Subject: [Bklyn] Elopement/quick divorce locations?


> Any ideas where a person from Manhattan would go to get a quick
> divorce/annulment and get married outside NYC? I have exhausted all NYC
> records and feel quite confident that
> my grandmother must have gone outside the area. This was about 1926/27.
>
> I was watching a pbs special on mary pickford, the actress, who resided in
> NYC and it mentioned that she went to NJ for a divorce. I am totally
> unfamiliar with the east coast so I don't know where (what county, city
> etc) to look. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks Pam Jeter
> Researching: KING, MCCUE, MCDANIEL, LLOYD, BRIDGEWOOD, MURPHY, SMITH,
>
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