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Henrico County (Va.) Marriage Registers Nos. 2 and 3, 1853-1920

Henrico County (Va.) Circuit Court.

Henrico County (Va.) Marriage Register No. 2, 1853-1897, is a list of marriages celebrated in the county and recorded by the county clerk. The following information is found: the date and place of marriage, the full names of both parties, the age and condition of parties before marriage, their birth places, their places of residence, the names of their parents, the occupation of the husband, the name of the person performing the marriage ceremony and any remarks associated with the marriage such as the race of the couple or the minister's denomination (beginning in 1859). The entries are numbered consecutively within a given year. The volume indicates an influx of immigrants from Ireland, Italy and Germany into the City of Richmond beginning in 1853 and continuing until the 1890s. Free African and African American marriages, 1854-1897, are noted in the remarks section and later with an abbreviation or (c) next to their names. A marriage certificate, dated 1863, from a local minister is found on page 10. An internal index, A-Z, is unnumbered. This index is arranged alphabetically by the groom's surname according to the page number in the volume. Register No. 2 is also found on Microfilm Reels 89 and 196.

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