There are other good possibilities here also. At the end of a 1865
district census, I found one of the females in my family listed under
marriages that took place during that year. It gave the date and
location of her marriage, her husband's name, their prior marital status
and their ages. Deaths that took place during this year are also listed
in this area with date, age and cause of death. I found a ggg-grandfather
listed here in a 1875 census. Another possibility, albeit a long shot,
is the district enumerator's affidavit at the end of each district
census. A gg-grandfather was a JP and had witnessed the affidavit, so
I'm now very pleased to have a copy of his signature.
R. Holmes wrote:
(clip) >>The census is organized by election district, and at the end of eachdistrict are some pages for agricultural and manufacturing statistics (if
your ancestor had a farm, it will tell here how big the farm was, what it
was worth, how much gross income it had, etc.). Then there's a section
called "Miscellaneous statistics".
Great stuff here! They list all the churches in the district. If you
don't know what church your ancestor went to, these are your prime
candidates.<<