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