Re: Marriage lookup Erb and Kallenbach about 1866-70
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Re: Marriage lookup Erb and Kallenbach about 1866-70
Narelle Balcom 5/20/10
Thank you for that info.I had checked the on-line marriage index and as you, came up with nothing on the marriage.I do know about RAOGK and have used it before to great success, but didn't think about it for some reason in this case.We can give that avenue one last try in the matter.
That said, some new information is giving the impression that the couple may have never married.The man's apparent ~wife~ was in their 1870 household at the bottom of the list of the household, with the new woman who came over with the wife and children listed right under the man as his wife.Later information found in Nebraska church records indicates that the first woman ~was~ the wife (her cemetery tombstone) and the 2nd woman, who was the mother of two little boys with this man (again church records...death records of the two young boys) married after the supposed husband's death to my great great grandfather via her maiden name.A later census showed she had been married only the number of years to my great great grandfather, while his info indicated the years of his marriage to her and his own first wife.
I realize that sounds very convoluted, but suffice that I think something must have happenedshortly after arriving here to the first wife who came over separately from her husband.Some court land records indicated she was ~feeble minded~, so perhaps she had some accident which resulted in some brain damage.These two women knew each other well...came over from the same small village together....and it would have been a very simple solution for my step great great grandmother to have stayed with the family to help out with the two little girls and an injured friend...and the situation gradually evolved into a case where my step gg grandmother became a common law wife.In later years in Nebraska, the first wife actually deeded (through an attorney) some land to my gg grandmother, so there was a very close relationship between them.
My conclusion is that we will probably not find a marriage record ANYwhere, because none ever existed.However, that will not stop me from turning over any stone to try to find one in case it exists and was possibly mistranscribed.I've seen that situation several times myself.
Thank you for taking the time to post your information.I will follow up on it.
Julie