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John and Margaret took out a marriage application on November 10th:
groom: Brosnehan, John
residence: Virginia City
age: X
bride: Shea, Margaret
residence: Gold Hill
age: 22
application date: 10-Nov-1876
Storey County Marriage Applications Book 2 Page 181
According to the online western states marriage records, there is a marriage record for
them from the previous month with the date you have!
ID Number 101417
Grooms First Name John
Grooms Last Name BROSNEHAN
Grooms Residence
Brides First Name Margaret
Brides Last Name SHEA
Brides Residence
County of Record Storey Co., Nevada
Place of Marriage Gold Hill
Date of Marriage 25 Oct 1876
Volume A
Page 369
You can get a copy of the application and the marriage certificate (they are not
individuals, usually three records per page) from the Nevada State library in Carson City.
It could be they failed to obtain the application prior to getting married or it could be
that one of the records was recorded with the wrong month. One way to verify the marriage
date would be to check the Territorial Enterprise newspapers around those two dates, they
announced all of the marriages in their daily newspaper.
There are two places where you can obtain a naturalization record on early Nevadans:
U.S. District Court
District of Nevada
400 South Virginia St.
Reno, NV 89701
http://www.nvd.uscourts.gov/
National Archives-Pacific Sierra Region
1000 Commodore Dr.
San Bruno, CA 94066-2350
650/876-9009
sanbruno.archives(a)nara.gov
http://www.archives.gov/facilities/ca/san_francisco.html
Good luck!