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Northeast North Carolina Family History – Thankful for modern technology…<br />
By: Irene Hampton - nencfamilyhistory@gmail.com<br />
I was looking through some family history thinking about<br />
this column when I realized that my grandparents were<br />
married 100 years ago this month. Although we know the<br />
date of their marriage, it occurred to me that I’ve never<br />
seen a picture. My computer tree indicated I had a copy of<br />
their marriage registration, so I dug it out to check for more<br />
information. My grandfather was a 31 year old bachelor, a<br />
farmer, born in Quebec. And bless those French-Canadian<br />
Catholic records, they included parents’ full names with the<br />
mother’s maiden name. My grandmother was 20, born in<br />
Manitoba and the reference to a single woman at the time<br />
was spinster. It indicates they were both Catholic and that<br />
the banns had been read. Oddly enough, the copy of the<br />
registration from 1916 and a copy of a certificate from 1965<br />
that I’m guessing my parents requested, have different witnesses<br />
listed… But those details don’t tell me about the<br />
family and friends who were there. What was the reception<br />
like? What about the hundreds of details that went in<br />
to making that occasion happen? Do you have the same<br />
problem with family events?<br />
For our son’s wedding reception last month (see Lexi<br />
and Seth on Youtube if you are interested) I was asked to<br />
send pictures from our wedding and our parents’ wedding<br />
day. There is no picture for my husband’s parents or either<br />
of the grandparents that we are aware of. Details are slim<br />
as well. It is truly sad that such important, relatively recent<br />
events are already lost to memory. What about your own<br />
important occasions? Have you recorded them in some<br />
way? Are there pictures that are saved in a manner that<br />
they will be available to future generations? Or even if<br />
you had a fire or disaster like the recent flooding so many<br />
people experienced? I do know that our son’s wedding and<br />
reception are so well documented through social media that<br />
I’m pretty confident they will be available in perpetuity!<br />
Do you know the circumstances or marriage customs<br />
of your ancestors? Early in North Carolina’s history, circuit<br />
riders would go through their districts and marry individuals<br />
in the block of time they were in that area. Those records<br />
may or may not have ended up recorded at the state level.<br />
Were there specific religious or cultural traditions that your<br />
ancestors would have followed?<br />
I know when my mother got married 65 years ago,<br />
there was a wedding dress trend for a type of hoop around<br />
the hip that she wished wasn’t recorded in all their photographs.<br />
Whenever we saw those pictures she commented<br />
on how much she disliked that style. We do have photos of<br />
her dressed to leave after the reception with all her sisters<br />
and her parents. And I know that they went to Seattle for<br />
their honeymoon where she got sick on seafood which has<br />
genetically predisposed me to not care for it – well, that’s<br />
my best reason…<br />
I can feel for my mom as I didn’t care for the way my hat<br />
and attached veil looked in most of my wedding pictures<br />
– in a few it was great. I just check with my husband and<br />
he does remember how I felt about it but I doubt my sons<br />
Irene Hampton earned cerrtificate in Genealogy from<br />
Brigham Young University and worked as the Genealogical/Local<br />
history Researcher for the<br />
Pasquotank-Camden Library for over 12 years. She<br />
has also abstracted and published “Widow’s Years<br />
Provisions, 1881-1899, Pasquotank County,<br />
North Carolina”; “1840 Currituck,<br />
North Carolina Federal Census” and “Record of Marriages,<br />
Book A (1851-1867) Currituck County, North<br />
Carolina”. You may contact her at<br />
nencfamilyhistory@gmail.com.<br />
have any idea. Just a little detail I could share. My husband<br />
did add he always thought it looked very nice – good<br />
man! I don’t even remember the food that was served at<br />
our reception. We do have a picture of us cutting the cake,<br />
so I know what that looked like. I have a picture of what<br />
looks like a hotel room where my parents’ reception was,<br />
but not one of the cake! My point being how scattered my<br />
information is and with all the people I need to speak to no<br />
longer living, I can’t even ask about the food for my own<br />
reception. Not earth shattering, but details I have lost.<br />
My in-laws got married during WWII when they were<br />
both 19. They were married in South Mills in Camden<br />
County which became the hot spot for courthouse marriages<br />
during the war for couples up and down the east coast.<br />
We have an outdoor picture we believe was taken around<br />
the time they got married, but that’s about it. That’s so sad.<br />
If you are interested in some great local wedding pictures,<br />
clothes and customs, check out the Museum of the<br />
<strong>Albemarle</strong>’s “I DO! Weddings in the <strong>Albemarle</strong>” exhibit. If<br />
you can’t get there in person they have a great link at http://<br />
vowbride.com/news/i-do-weddings-in-albermarle/<br />
With the holiday season fast approaching PLEASE take<br />
the time at ANY family get-together to talk about and record<br />
in some manner family memories. They really are precious<br />
and sadly have an expiration date. Don’t lose them.<br />
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