Matrilineal Monday : Marriages of Melissa Ann Welch
Matrilineal Monday is a blogging theme to celebrate or share something of your mother’s line. This week I have been cleaning up files from my to-do list and found some COOR, WELCH, and KETHLEY marriages from Copiah County, Mississippi. I had the dates of these marriages from marriage indexes but not the images of the actual marriage record page from the county clerk. I found these records from films at the Family History Library. Today I’ll share the two marriage records for my third great-grandmother, Melissa Ann Welch . Melissa was born 8 May 1840 to Dempsey Welch and Elizabeth Rebecca Young . [1] She married first to J. T. Pittman on 31 Oct 1855 in Copiah County, Mississippi. [2] Marriage for J.T. Pittman & Melissa Ann Welch in 1855 There is not much information given in these marriage records and lots of blanks spaces left blank. So would have been nice if the clerk had filled in the parent’s names! The bondsman, Thomas G. Welch was her brother, Thomas Grif