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"type": ["shortcuts:/us/instance/identifier/URL"], "category": ["IDENTIFIER"], "context": "please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html" } }; YAHOO.Shortcuts.overlaySpaceId = "97546169"; YAHOO.Shortcuts.hostSpaceId = "97546168"; About marrying without family blessing...I have one of those "family manuscripts" written about 1900. One story is about a very wealthy Virginia man in 1760 who was dead set against his 17-year-old daughter's marrying his overseer, although mama thought it was OK. The descendant-writer says when they couldn't get her father's consent they "ran off and got married."
But if children under 21 had to have consent of a parent (and as I understand it, that has to be the father if he's alive), where could they "run off" to from Albemarle County to get a legal marriage? They did get married at some point and lived afterwards in Albemarle County, but could she have married legitimately at 17 without her father's consent?
--Joan
Diane Ethridge <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
My 4th gr grandparents, Reuben Wright & Joanna (or Anna) Gilbert married in 1798, Sussex Co. VA. The Gilberts of early Surry & Sussex Counties, were listed as "Planters" in the area & appeared to be a very affluent family. The "Surety" for this marriage was a "Gray Barker", a descendant of another well-to-do family & was descended from George Washington's relatives in that area.
My question is this: Would a lady from a family of this higher social standing marry a man from a lower station in life, given the times in which they lived & the fact that they still followed the social & ettiquette rules of England?
Recent DNA studies have shown that this Wright family is from the line who married into the Jarrett family & many of them moved on to both IL & GA. However, we still can't determine just where this group came from originally.
Maybe if we knew the answer to this "social" question, it would help place our Wrights, who were from Thomas Wright, b 1700 in VA, & married Mary Hannah Mize in Bedford Co. VA, into a known Wright line. My Reuben Wright was a farmer & Methodist-Episcopal minister.
Thank you,
Diane Ethridge
Conroe, TX
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