Family Search. Lackawanna County Marriage License Index, page 1. Lackawanna County Marriage Licenses Index Beginning on Oct. 1, 1885, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania required each county to issue licenses for any couple desiring to marry. The couple did not have to take out the license in the county of their residence.
Although the basic information required on the application was the same, each county kept their information in a different manner. In addition to creating a copy of the application, Lackawanna created a master index book for Marriage Licenses. A complete marriage license docket (file) consists of 4 parts: application, consent form (if required), a form for the couple to keep (the return) and the duplicate return, which the person performing the ceremony was to return to the courthouse. Every time a license was issued, an entry was to be made in the index book, and thus a log was created for when the duplicate returns came back to the courthouse.
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Between 1905 and the middle of 1913, the applicant was not asked for the names of parents unless consent was required. Names contained between braces, i.e. {John Jones}, mean that the parent of the applicant was deceased at the time the license was obtained. A (c) in the Father or Mother column means consent was given. Permission is given to use this material on the PAGenWeb / USGenWeb project for the purpose of doing individual family research only.
Contributed by Richard M. Contributed by Richard M. Return to Marriage IndexOther Marriage License Affidavit ListsReturn to the Lackawanna County PAGenWeb Home Page These documents are made available free to the public for non-commercial purposes by the Lackawanna County, PAGenWeb Project. Lackawanna Co., PAGenWeb Genealogy. Welcome to the Lackawanna County, PAGenWeb! I'm Susan Pieroth, the Lackawanna County, PAGenWeb Coordinator since January 2008, and previously from 1998 to 2002. This is part of the all volunteer USGenWeb Project. Happy Hunting! Search The Lackawanna Co. If you get a blank page, hit "Reload" Lackawanna County History Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, was formed from parts of Luzerne County August 13, 1878, and was the last county to be created. Scranton, the county seat, was named for the Scranton family.
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