Document C.157 · marriage index · transcription: partial
Minnesota Official Marriage System (MOMS) — Otter Tail County marriage index, certificate I-064, 4 September 1895: the one-line index row for BRILL, HENRY W × COUPER, LAURA E.
- repository
- Minnesota Official Marriage System (MOMS), operated by the Minnesota Association of County Officers (MACO) from the counties' own marriage records. Searched at https://moms.mn.gov/Search/BasicSearch.
- collection
- MOMS statewide certificate search, 'All Participating' counties, both applicants.
- date
- 1895
People named
| As written | Role | Identified as | What this document says |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRILL, HENRY W | groom | Henry Walter Brill 1871–1951 candidate | |
| COUPER, LAURA E | bride | Laura Elbertine (Cooper) Brill 1876–1937 candidate |
What this document records
Record
Otter Tail County, Minnesota marriage certificate I-064
Index row: county
OTTER TAIL
Index row: certificate number
I-064
Index row: marriage date
09/04/1895
Index row: applicant 1
BRILL, HENRY W
Index row: applicant 2
COUPER, LAURA E
The other three rows returned
DOUGLAS · D - 329 · 11/12/1888 · BRILL, HENRY R × POTTSMITH, MARY E; JACKSON · C-413 · 05/20/1894 · BRILL, HENRY × VOEHL, LIZZIE; CROW WING · L-137 · 01/18/1926 · BROWN, HENRY × BRILL, PEARL
🔤 the brides surname is spelled couper
The clerk wrote COUPER, not Cooper. ⇒ A form to search her family under, and a concrete reason why a Cooper-keyed marriage search would miss this record. It joins the catalog's growing list of faithfully-indexed enumerator and clerk spellings — Lowery [D.842], Harting [D.846], Pearce [D.848], Elizebeth [E.34], Lesler [D.850] — as against a genuine index error against a correct plate, which is a different thing entirely.
⚖️ what this row is and is not
It IS an official county index, compiled by the county officers from their own registers, and it gives a county, a certificate number and an exact date — the three things needed to order the record itself. It is NOT the marriage return, and it carries no parents, no ages, no residences, no officiant and no witnesses. ⇒ It cannot by itself confirm that this Laura E. Couper is Laura Elbertine (Cooper) Brill, daughter of George Monroe Cooper George Monroe Cooper.
What this document does not say
No parents of either party, no ages, no birthplaces, no officiant, no witnesses, no place within the county, and no indication of whether either had been married before.