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Orange County Indexed

Bratchaw marriages

1 marriage in which the groom or the bride bears the name, oldest first.

Samuel N Bratchaw and Nancy A Edwards

Marriage bond, 19 January 1862

Bond dated
19 January 1862
Married
19 January 1862
In the books
Orange Marriage Book A-B, page 1020, at the Register of Deeds
Other readings
  • Ingmire reads the groom as Samuel N and Bratchaw
  • Holcomb reads the date as 18 January 1862
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60002, “Marriage Bonds, 1752–1868, A–Bra” (the name falls near a reel’s first or last bond; check both).
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60003, “Marriage Bonds, 1752–1868, Bra–Com” (the name falls near a reel’s first or last bond; check both).
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60001, “Marriage Record, 1851–66, and Marriage Registers, 1867–72”.
  • The 1936 State Archives abstract of the bonds, image 49 on FamilySearch, or the one before or after it: the bondsman and witness are there.
  • Find this marriage on FamilySearch (free account; its dates are often the bond’s).
In all the records
Every Bratchaw record, by decade: deeds, court minutes, wills, tax lists and more
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