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Application for Marriage License — William J. Branchide and Harriet A. Davis, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1918 (No. 26)
Transcript
Uncertain readings are marked [?] or set in brackets; words that could not be read are marked as such. Each transcript is shown as written, with its transcriber’s notes.
Statement of male
Full name: William J. Branchide; color: W (white)
Relationship of parties: none
Occupation: Machinist; birthplace: St. Clair, Pa.
Residence: Mahanoy City, Pa.; age: 44
Previous marriages: once; date of death of former wife: Apr 22nd, 1915 [?]
Father: Jacob Branchide (dead); father's birthplace: Pa.
Mother: Mary, maiden name Houser; residing Phila., Pa.; occupation H.K. (housekeeper); birthplace: Pa.
No transmissible disease; not of unsound mind; not an inmate of an asylum; able to support a family: yes
Statement of female
Full name: Harriet A. Davis; color: W
Relationship of parties: none
Occupation: H.K. (housekeeper); birthplace: England
Residence: Mah. City (Mahanoy City); age: 38
Previous marriages: once; date of death of former husband: July 20th, 1916
Father: Charles Parrish [written "Parish"] (dead), born England; mother: Eliz. Collins (maiden name Collins) (dead), born England
License and marriage
Marriage license issued: Oct 2nd, 1918
Sworn to before justice: Frank C. Ball, C.O.C.
Duplicate certificate returned by: W. P. Longsdorf, Minister of the Gospel, Oct 3rd, 1918
Married at: Mahoney [Mahanoy] City, Pa., Oct 2nd, 1918
Chapter 9 confirms both points at length: the bride is Harriet Adelaide Parrish, daughter of Charles W. Parrish Sr. and Elizabeth Collins of Shenandoah, and the groom's first wife, Lucinda (Lucy) Myers, whom he married in 1899, died in 1916. This application's own reading of her death date, 22 April 1915(?), is uncertain and a year short of Chapter 9's 22 April 1916; neither source is a clean primary record for the date, and the year is not resolved.