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From: "James L. Stokes" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Question about a legal document
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 12:39:15 -0500
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You didn't mention if the marriage date was printed on the form or hand
written.
I'd assume that it was a preprinted form and the marriage date marks a
change in Connecticut marriage law and so someone married after that date
would come under some other law as far as what the wife inherits.
Jim

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Subject: [NJHUNTER] Question about a legal document


> Hi Everyone,
> I am hoping there might be a lawyer on the list or at least someone
> who has done enough genealogy that they might have run across something
> similar. I am sending this message to several other lists to see if I can
> come up with an answer. Otherwise I suppose I shall have to pay to
consult a
> lawyer.
> This involves an Application for Letters of Testamentary for my
> great-grandfather's estate in CT., but perhaps this is standard legalese
> that might be used anywhere.
> I am trying to pin down the date and location of the marriage of my
> great-grandparents. I have reason to believe that they were married in
> Washington Co, NY and that they then moved to CT.
> My grandfather (their first born) was born in June of 1877.
> My great-grandfather died in 1922.
> The pertinent part of the application reads as follows(I am leaving
> out the names and exact town):
> Estate of ---------- ----------, late of------- Connecticut, in said
> district, deceased.
> The subscriber represents that -------- -------- last dwelt in the town
of
> -----------, Conn., in said District, and died on the 20th day of
February,
> 1922, posessed of goods and estate remaining to be administered, leaving a
> widow, whose name is --------- ------------ to whom he was married before
> April 20th, 1877, and as his only.......................
> Now my question is this. Why would a marriage date be stated this
> way. Why not give an exact date? Was this an attempt to not embarass the
> widow because it appears as though she may have been pregnant before the
> marriage? Was this so that my grandfather could inherit as a legitimate
> heir----or is this just some form of legalese that has nothing at all to
do
> with the actual marriage date?
> I will be making a trip to NY as soon as the weather moderates, but
> would definitely like to narrow down the time frame for the marriage.
> If this means what I assume it means, it will definitely narrow it
> down to a six or seven month period of time.
> Any help always appreciated.
> Kay
>
>
>
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