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Reitter Krauser Marriage License Affidavit 29Oct1904
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Form 40.
State of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA COUNTY, ss.
Nicolaus Reitter
Personally appeared
who hereby requests the Clerk of the Orphans' Court, for the said County to issue a License for the marriage of
himself
to
Elisabeth Krauser
and who, being duly
Sworn
according to law, doth depose and say: that
he
was born in
Austria Hungary
, on the
5th
day of
Mch
A.D. 18
80
; that he resides at
1408 Cadwallader St Phila
; that he
occupation
Tinsmith
; that he is
not
related by blood or marriage to the person whom he desires to marry
; that he has
never
been married before, and the marriage was dissolved by*
[Transcriber's note: "and the marriage was dissolved" is struck through by a handwritten line. The lines following "by\" are blank.]*
that
Elisabeth Krauser
whom he is about to marry, was born in
Austria Hungary
, on the
19th
day of
Sept
A.D. 18
82
[Transcriber's note: The last digit of the bride's birth year is written in a looped hand; it reads most clearly as "2" (1882). The reading is not certain.]
, that she resides at
Same address
occupation
Housework
; that she has
never
been married before, and marriage was dissolved by*
[Transcriber's note: "and marriage was dissolved" is struck through by a handwritten line. The lines following "by\" are blank.]*
that he knows of no reason why the said marriage may not be lawfully made.
Sworn
and subscribed before me, this
29th
day of
Oct
A.D. 190
4
× Nikolaus Reitter
[Transcriber's note: The "×" precedes the signature, as in the original.]
Jacob C. Goebel [signature; last name read as "Goebel"]
Asst. Clerk of Orphans' Court.
[Transcriber's note: Part of the printed title "Asst." is overwritten by the signature's flourish.]
* If Marriage was dissolved by Divorce, state when, where, and on what grounds, Divorce was obtained.