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Record Group Number: 800000
Series/Collection Number: .L 123
Creator: Florida. Circuit Court (4th Circuit : Duval County)
Title, Dates: Marriage records, 1823-1963.
Amount: 139.00 microfilm reel 35 mm.
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Organization/Arrangement: Chronological.
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Biographical/Historical:     Duval County was created as one of the two counties in East Florida by an act of the Legislative Council on August 12, 1822. Duval County was later divided to form Alachua (1824), Clay (1858), Hamilton (1827), and Nassau (1824) counties.  The courthouse of Duval County was destroyed by fire on May 3, 1901. The Clerk of the Circuit Court in each county serves as the official custodian of deed, marriage, and probate records.
Summary:     The series consists of a microfilm copy of the marriage records of Duval County, Florida from 1823 to 1963.  The series includes an index to marriage records (1823-1963), marriage record books (1823-1927), a register of marriages (1889-1931) and marriage license applications (1915-1927).
      Record books document when the couple applied for the marriage license, when they were married, and who performed the ceremony. Marriage registers were compiled from ministers and justices of the peace who were required to report all marriages they performed within the county.  The registers document that a marriage took place and often contain only the name of the bride and groom and the date of the marriage.
    Applications for marriage license document the applicants' names, age, race, birthplace, occupation, and whether either of the applicants had previously been married.  Applications sometimes included affidavits and once completed were often used as the marriage license, containing the date of the wedding and who performed the ceremony.

Finding Aids: Microfilm listing available.
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Reproduction Note: Microfilm.
Location of Originals/Duplicates: Circuit Court, Fourth Judicial Circuit, Duval County.  Office of the Clerk, Jacksonville, Florida.
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Subject Access Fields: Marriage records Florida --Duval County
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Duval County (Fla.)
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