CHATHAM COUNTY, NC - MARRIAGES - George W. Newman to Ella M. Thomas ==================================================================== 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. Jan 3rd, 1891 To any ordained Minister of any Religious Denomination or any Justice of the Peace of said County: G. W. Newman having applied to me for a LICENSE for the Marriage of George W. Newman of Chatham Co, aged 35 years, color white, the son of Wm Newman and Tempy Newman, the father now living, the mother dead, resident of Chatham County And Ella M. Thomas of Moore Co., aged 29 years, color white, daughter of John Thomas and Betsy Thomas, the father dead, the mother living, resident of Moore 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 , 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. Witness: STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, Chatham County. I, J. A. Parham, a Justice of the Peace, united in Matrimony George W. Newman and Ella M. Thomas the parties license above, on the 9 day of January, 1891 at Lockville, Chatham County, NC, inCape Fear Township, in said County, according to law. J. A. Parham, JP Witnesses present at Marriage: J. P. Thomas of E. M. Wicker of