New Jersey State Archives, Marriage Indexes, Bride Index 1904-1909, surname range A-C, the page running ACKERMAN IDA to ACKLAND MARGARET - a statewide typescript index of maiden name of wife, husband's surname and given name, state file number and year; Ancestry collection 61253 image 46999_543868-00013.

What this document records

Record group

New Jersey State Archives Marriage Indexes

Index type

Bride (the wife's maiden surname is the sort key)

Years

1904-1909

Surname range

A - C

Page span

ACKERMAN IDA through ACKLAND MARGARET

Columns recorded

maiden_name_of_wife; name_of_husband; state_file_no; place_of_marriage; date_of_marriage

Rows transcribed

1

Note

ONE row transcribed - the Ackerson/Cooper row. The page holds roughly sixty others (Ackerman, Ackermann, Ackerprice, Ackers, Ackerson, Ackert, Ackeson, Ackland), read at 1x only to fix the row's position and NOT transcribed.

Reading notes

WHAT THIS DOCUMENT IS, AND THE TWO COLUMNS IT LEAVES EMPTY. It is a typescript INDEX, not a return: it carries no ages, no parents, no officiant, no witnesses and no residence. THE "PLACE OF MARRIAGE" COLUMN IS BLANK ON THIS ROW - AND ON EVERY ROW OF THE PAGE. So the index does NOT say where in New Jersey the marriage happened. Ancestry's search result renders the place as "New Jersey, USA", which is the collection's scope and not a reading. THE DATE COLUMN IS SPLIT "(MO.)" AND "(YR.)", AND THE MONTH SUB-COLUMN IS BLANK on this row and throughout. ⇒ The record gives a YEAR ONLY. Any month attached to this marriage later must come from somewhere else. The state-file figure is printed as two separated numbers, 6 and 230, under one heading "STATE FILE NO." - recorded here as written rather than joined, since the page gives no key to what the two parts mean. The husband's column is headed "NAME OF HUSBAND (LAST)" and the entry reads surname-first, "COOPER CLARK" - i.e. Clark Cooper, with NO middle initial. The index's own convention, not a statement that he had none.