Lindsey, I am so glad that you found my site.
AND, I, too, would like anyone who has the book to check on the marriage I
cited for Catherine
> DeLaFayette (Richards) Voss to Lawson Barnett on 22 Feb 1822.
"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough
and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
Deb Koplen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family history.
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Lindsey Bourne
> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 10:31 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Marriage Lookup Request
>
>
> Does anyone on the list have a hard copy of Jordan R. Dodd's _Early
> American Marriages: Virginia to 1850_ who would be willing to lookup a
> marriage for me? I found in Ancestry.com's "Virginia Marriages,
> 1740-1859" database, which cites Dodd as the source, a listing for the
> following marriage:
>
> James F. Dean to Mary J.E. Lee, 12 August 1845, Chesterfield County
>
> I was at the LVa this afternoon, and was unable to find this marriage in
> the six sets of microfilmed marriage records for Chesterfield County for
> this period that I searched. Moreover, it is not listed in the
> Chesterfield Historical Society's _Marriages of Chesterfield County,
> Virginia, abstracted from microfilm, 1771-1854_, nor is it in _Marriage
> Bonds and Ministers' Returns of Chesterfield County, Virginia,
> 1816-1853_, compiled by Benjamin B. Weisiger, III.
>
> This evening, I found in a web search a descendancy narrative for
> Captain Symon Miller (http://home.swbell.net/koplend/miller_b1.htm)
> citing this same Ancestry.com database for the marriage of Catherine
> Delafayette (Richards) Voss to Lawson Barnett on 22 Feb 1822. The
> footnote for this entry says that the database gives Chesterfield County
> as the place of the marriage, but the author finds this highly unlikely,
> and speculates that there has been a transcription error--that the
> correct county is actually Culpeper.
>
> After my fruitless search for the cited Dean-Lee marriage record this
> afternoon, I, too, am wondering if there has been a transcription error,
> most likely on Ancestry.com's part, and I would very much like to know
> what Dodd's book actually says. If someone with access to this would be
> good enough to check that for me, I would be most grateful.
>
> Lindsey Bourne
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