Saturday, October 22, 2011

Marriages

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7 comments:

  1. I have found the dates of my husbands Catholic Bohemian ancestors but I never looked to see what day of the week it was..guess I will have to do that.

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  2. This information is really fascinating. I didn't know any of it, but it seems so reasonable and sensible. Thanks. I too will check the day of the week from the records I have found.

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  3. My great grandmother married on a Saturday - July 7, 1883. Does that mean something different?

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  4. I am surprised that the age was not important, if the age of majority, or adulthood, was legally prescribed. I am not doubting you, Lanko, but it is just surprising. Were people not interested in their vested rights? Or was it one of those things that was passed down from Vienna, but pretty much ignored by common people?

    Also, I am surprised that the priest would not want to be careful about the age of the people that he married. After all, according to the church rules, people of only certain age could get married (whether the dates proscribed by Rome matched those proscribed by Vienna is another question). Would it not be fairly easy for the priest to go back to the birth matrika to check out the date in church records?

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  5. Great history of weddings. Were the witness usually relatives or godparents? I recognize many family names there.

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  6. Great history of weddings. Were the witness usually relatives or godparents? I recognize many family names there.

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  7. Very interesting and useful. I was surprised by the information that almost all weddings took place on Tuesdays, because most of my family's weddings took place on Sundays, and there are also some on Mondays.

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