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Re: Surety versus Witness on a Marriage Bond
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Ann Avery Hunter <[log in to unmask]>
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Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family history." <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:13:30 -0400
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> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Bill Davidson <[log in to unmask]>
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>> If one man was a witness on a marriage bond in 1798 in VA, and
>> another man provided surety on that same marriage bond, from that
>> information alone, can one determine which man was the father of the
>> bride (assuming that one of the men was, in fact, the bride's father)?

You can't make any assumption about either. The surety was often (but not
always) a relative of the bride or the groom, but could be father, brother,
uncle, cousin, brother-in-law, etc. As for the witness, check your county
records to see who the County Clerk and Deputy Clerk were, as I've found 
both listed as witnesses on marriage bonds.

Ann
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Ann Avery Hunter
Winston-Salem, NC

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