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In GENEALOGIE Heft 8/9, 1974, page 266 is listed a marriage book of the Ev.-Lutheran Church St. Matthäus in Munich for the years 1800-1825. The article was written by Gerhart Nebinger and can be found in the Family History Library under call number 943 B2gf | In GENEALOGIE Heft 8/9, 1974, page 266 is listed a marriage book of the Ev.-Lutheran Church St. Matthäus in Munich for the years 1800-1825. The article was written by Gerhart Nebinger and can be found in the Family History Library under call number 943 B2gf | ||
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=== Online church records from Bavaria === | |||
Records from Feuchtwangen can be found [http://www.geschichte-feuchtwangen.de/hgneu.htm here]<br>Records from Passau can be found [http://matricula-online.eu/pages/de/recherche.php here] | |||
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'''Frivolous Marriages in Bavaria''' | |||
<br>'''Frivolous Marriages in Bavaria''' | |||
Frivolous marriages are those entered into by the very young or impecunious. They were objectionable because they could lead to poverty and dependence on public assistance. This was the opinion of Bavarian officials. The problem must have been rampant because there were directives given to priests as early as 1578 to be pressed on their parishioners’ minds to carefully consider before entering into a marriage contract. From then on, a marriage was only legal when a priest performed the ceremony and besides that both partners had to go to confession before they married.<br> | Frivolous marriages are those entered into by the very young or impecunious. They were objectionable because they could lead to poverty and dependence on public assistance. This was the opinion of Bavarian officials. The problem must have been rampant because there were directives given to priests as early as 1578 to be pressed on their parishioners’ minds to carefully consider before entering into a marriage contract. From then on, a marriage was only legal when a priest performed the ceremony and besides that both partners had to go to confession before they married.<br> | ||