(Really sorry about that mess with my previous try to post--don't know what happened with my Yahoo.)
   
  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 writer, a descendant, says when the daughter 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

   
   

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