CHATHAM COUNTY, NC - MARRIAGES - William A. Thomas to Maryann Gerty Self ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Kay Jackson ==================================================================== STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA Office of Register of Deeds. Chatham County. Dec 23rd, 1890 To any ordained Minister of any Religious Denomination or any Justice of the Peace of said County: H. P. Smith having applied to me for a LICENSE for the Marriage of William A. Thomas of Alamance Co., aged 22 years, color White, the son of Ben and H. E. Thomas, the father now dead, the mother dead, resident of Alamance County And Maryann Gerty Self of Chatham Co., aged 18 years, color white, daughter of Alfred Self and Mary Self Thomas, the father living, the mother living, resident of Chatham Co. And the written consent of _(marked out)______________ the _(marked out)_____________ of the said _(marked out)________________ to the proposed marriage having been filed with me. And there being no legal impediment to such marriage known to me, you are hereby authorized, at any time within one year from the date hereto, to celebrate the proposed marriage at any place within the said county. You are required, within two months after you shall have celebrated such marriage, to return this license to me, at my office, with your signature subscribed to the certificate under this License, and with the blanks therein filled according to the facts, under penalty of forfeiting two hundred dollars to the sue of any person who shall sue for the same. D. H. Marsh, Register of Deeds H. P. Smith, being duly sworn, says: That the parties applying for License are of lawful age, and that so far as he is informed and believes, there is no lawful cause or impediment forbidding said marriage. H. P. Smith Witness: D. H. Marsh STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, Chatham County. I, W. A. Smith, a Baptist Minister, united in Matrimony W. A. Thomas and Maryann Girtie Self the parties license above, on the 24 day of December, 1890, at the residence of A. M. Self (brides father) in Hadley Township, in said County, according to law. W. A. Smith Witnesses present at Marriage: A. J. Terry of Hep Smith of (?) A. Smith of