Marriages
Marriages
Information taken from various
newspapers and individual submitters.
If you have any marriage information you would like to submit,
please email the information to Rhonda.
Mystery Marriage License
Mystery Solved!
Take a look to see if you may be related.
Index for the Book of
Marriages
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Please be patient.)
A Brief History of Marriage and Divorce, Missouri-Style
| Bef. Statehood | divorces granted in general court |
| 1825 | divorces granted in superior and circuit courts |
| 1835 | law prohibiting marriage between whites and blacks passed |
| Bef. 1853 | divorces granted by the General Assembly by legislative act |
| Bef. Civil War | Slaves prohibited from marrying |
| 1865 | law prohibiting bigamous marriages passed |
| Aft. Civil War | former slaves permitted to marry and legitimize their children |
| 1875 | courts of common pleas (jurisdiction of which is the same as the circuit court) abolished (except in cities with populations exceeding 3500) |
| Bef. 1881 | law requiring marriage licenses passed |
| 1881 | law requiring marriage licenses passed |
| 1921 | law prohibiting common law marriages passed |
| 1969 | law prohibiting marriage between whites and blacks repealed |
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