CA1258

Marriage Registers, 1861-1869, vol. B-D, McNairy Co., Tennessee
(C. Avis Catalog entry #12xx)


"Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939Z-Y4S8-GC?cc=1619127&wc=Q63S-BL1%3A1589264488%2C1589373796 : 22 December 2016), McNairy > Marriage registers, 1861-1869, vol B-D > image 325 of 747; citing Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties.


p. 124
State of Tennessee, McNairy County

MARRIAGE LICENSE

To any one Legally Authorized Solemnize Marriages:

    These are to Authorize you to Solemnize the Rites of Matrimony between John Gilton and Miss Amanda Fortune of your County, agreeably to an Act of Assembly in such cases made and provided.  Provided, always that the said Miss Amanda Fortune be an actual resident of this county; otherwise this shall be null and void, and shall not be accounted any license or authority for you or either of you, for the purpose aforesaid, more than if the same had never been prayed or granted.

    GIVEN UNDER MY HAND, AT THE CLERKS OFFICE, In said County, this 13th day of March 1866
        
        R. M. Thompson   Clerk.


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CERTIFICATE.

State of Tennessee,
McNAIRY COUNTY.

    I Solemnized the Rites of Matrimony between the within named parties on the 13th day of March 1866
            Robert Young  M. G.

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    Know all Men by these Presents, That we, John Gilton and Thomas Hankins of the COUNTY OF MCNAIRY and STATE OF TENNESSEE, are held and firmly bound unto the STATE OF TENNESSEE, in the sum of TWELVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS, to which payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, and each and every one of us and them jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.  WITNESS our hands and seals this 13th day of March 1866

    The condition of the above Obligation is such, That Whereas, John Gilton has this day prayed and obtained a license to marry Miss Amanda Fortune.  Now if the said Miss Amanda Fortune be an actual resident of the county aforesaid, and there shall not hereafter appear any lawful cause why the said John Gilton and Miss Amanda Fortune should not be joined in holy matrimony as husband and wife, then this obligation to be void and of no effect; otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.

    John Gilton  [his mark]
    Thomas Hankins [his mark]