Hello!
I am doing some digging around for rules concerning types of marriage in the
British Empire in the 1870's. A Google search for British Common Law Marriage
got me a Wikipedia entry that had a reference that mentions Marriage By
Correspondence
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_the
Would it be the same as marriage by proxy?
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Hello!
I am doing some
I've never come across Marriage by Correspondence. But I'm shocked to
find they abolished marriage by custom and repute - they kept that
quiet! Another unique little quirk of Scots law wiped out, sniff!
Jean
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Hello!
I am doing some digging around for rules concerni
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] Another Historical Wedding Question
I've never come across Marriage by Correspondence. But I'm shocked to find
they abolished marriage by custom and repute - they kept that quiet!
Another unique little quirk of Scots law wiped out, sn
Here's an American marriage by telegraph!
SAVANNAH [GA] REPUBLICAN, February 21, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
Marrying by Telegraph.--On the 6th of February, a
marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. Wm. Carr, chaplain of the
4th regiment N. Y. S. V., under rather novel circumstances, th
At 6:23 PM -0500 12/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am doing some digging around for rules concerning types of marriage in the
British Empire in the 1870's. A Google search for British Common Law Marriage
got me a Wikipedia entry that had a reference that mentions Marriage By
Correspondence
(ht