Source Information

Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, U.S., Marriage Registers, 1885-1889 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data:

Bureau of Statistics. Series 14.25, Record of Marriages, 1885-1891. Microfilm, rolls 385-386. Records of the Department of Internal Affairs, Record Group 14. Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

About Pennsylvania, U.S., Marriage Registers, 1885-1889

This database contains registers of marriages recorded in Pennsylvania from October 1885 through the end of December 1889. The marriages are recorded in duplicate, once in a pair of volumes organized by the groom’s surname and a second time in volumes organized by the bride’s surname. Entries can include the following details:

  • name of groom
  • occupation
  • residence
  • place of birth
  • age
  • color
  • date of marriage
  • name of bride
  • residence
  • place of birth
  • age
  • color
  • county where license was obtained