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From: Patt Ricketts <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] More on marriage consent entry
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 16:22:57 -0800
References: <20062119161.962705@Terry3> <PAEMLBFNDOAKPLNEJCEECEOBCOAA.Jodys.gen@direcway.com>
In-Reply-To: <PAEMLBFNDOAKPLNEJCEECEOBCOAA.Jodys.gen@direcway.com>


On 2/2/06, Jody McKenneyThomson <> wrote:
>
> Terry:
>
> Thank you for your response. To answer your questions: I think that this
> marriage consent shows that she (or he) was not "of age". Since subsequent
> census records are NOT consistent with her age, this does help to narrow
> her
> possible birth year. That is important. It also clearly identified her
> father. Also very important!! Other sources such as census and tax records
> show that he lived for several decades after her marriage - so that is not
> important.
>
> I would want the information about her father's consent to appear in the
> narrative - not in the footnotes.


Jody,
I agree with you. However, I would want the consent in both.

The consent is proof of the her father and helps narrow down her age, so in
this respect it is a source and I would make it part of my source. If this
was a marriage record I would add a note indicating that her father gave
consent as she was not of age.

I would also add the information to a tag. If as you say her birth is
confusing this will also help who ever reads your narrative.

If the consent was given on the marriage license it would be before the
marriage and have a separate date. I would also add her father as a witness
and his sentence would read something like e.g. He gave consent for his
daugther, xxx's marriage to xxxx on xxxx

Patt Ricketts


The simplest seems to be to put the consent information into the 'memo' of
> her marriage tag. I'm still not clear if that is the best place for it.
>
> Thank you again, Jody
>

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