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NOTE: This is a work in process.
1805 Territorial laws for Missouri (District of Louisiana) minimum age to marriage [girls 14 and boys 17] no requirement to report marriages.
1825 Missouri first bill on marriage: The minister, J.P., etc. was required to register marriages in a book and then transmit certificates to recorders within three months to the county recorder, and the bill had no minimum age limit.
1825-1826 Marriages in non-county area [Clark County, Missouri] should have been reported to Ralls County, Missouri.
1826-1833 Marriages in non-county area [Clark County, Missouri] should have been reported to Marion County, Missouri.
1833-1836 Marriages in non-county area [Clark County, Missouri] should have been reported to Lewis County, Missouri.
1836 Marriages in Clark County, Missouri should have been reported to Clark County, Missouri recorder.
1919 HB 27 set minimum age at 15, but courts could order license issued for good cause for person underage.
I’m not sure if the minimum age list above is the same as “age of consent.”
When an address is not provided, the assumption is the person is from Clark County, Missouri.
You will find some marriage listed twice, and this is most likely because the minister, J.P. and etc. did not check his records.
Some marriages were not reported to the recorder of deeds office for over a year.
RWH