It's Treasure Chest Thursday - time to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.
The treasure today is the marriage certificate for Fred Walton Seaver and Alma Bessie Richmond in 1900 in Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts:
The transcription of this certificate is (form fields underlined, handwritten portions in italics):
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CERTIFICATE OF MARRIAGE
FROM THE RECORDS OF MARRIAGES IN THE CITY OF LEOMINSTER
MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A.
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GROOM BRIDE
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Name: Fred Walton Seaver Alma Bessie Richmond
Surname after Marriage: --- ---
Date of Marriage: June 21, 1900
Residence: Leominster, MA Leominster, MA
Age: 23 18
Occupation: Comb Maker At Home
Birthplace: Leominster, MA Killingly, Ct
Name of Father: Frank W. Seaver Thomas Richmond
Maiden Name of Mother: Hatie S. Hildreth Julia White
Number of Marriage: 1st 1st
Place of Marriage: Leominster, MA
By Whom Married: Rev. Francis A. Brown
Leominster
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I, AUDREY J. JOHNSON, depose and say that I hold the office of City Clerk of the City of Leominster, County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts; that the records of Births, Marriages and Deaths required by law to be kept in said City are in my custody, and that the above is a true extract from the records of Marriages in said City, as certified by me.
WITNESS my hand and seal of said City on the 17th
day of September 19 90
Audrey J. Johnson
City Clerk
The source citation for this marriage certificate (crafted using the RootsMagic source template for "Vital Records (local, certificates)"):
Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, certificate of marriage (certificate dated 17 September 1990), Fred Walton Seaver and Alma Bessie Richmond 21 June 1900; Leominster City Clerk, Leominster, Mass.
This marriage certificate is a Derivative Source record (since it was created 90 years after the event, is Primary Information (for the names of the parties, the marriage date and place), and is Direct Evidence for the marriage event.
The only error I see is the name of Fred's mother - it was Hattie Louisa Hildreth, not Hatie S. Hildreth.
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time to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings. Make marriage certificate
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