The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-06-08
Marriage Recoras.-Orten Incorrect.

The law requiring the record of marriages |
presupposes that they will be recorded correctly.
And for them to be recorded correctly correct
notices should be furnished the Register. But
this is not always done. Incorrect notices are
often furnished We are frequently furnished
incorrect notices for publication, but when we
know the parties and know that there are errors
In the names we publish them they should be.
But the Register has no such liberty. His duty
is to record the notices as furnished, aud if they
are furnished wrong they go on record wrong.
And these wrong records may result in many
evils in the near remote future and even in the
after ages. There better be no records than
wrong records.
Several times during the present year we have
changed the names in the notices furnished so as
to publish them correctly. But when we publish
the marriage records we publish them as they are
recorded in the Registers books, and though
they may be noticed to be wrong, people
generally viii attribute the wrong to the publica-
ton and not to the record. Consequently
we suffer for the wrong-doing of these
who furnish incorrect notices for record. We
will therefore say to all who notice errors in the
names from the marriage records that the errors
are in the records end that those who furnished
them are to blame for it.
Inaccuracy in marriage notices furnished for
publication is very reprehensible. in marriage
notices for record it is intolerable. As far as we
have noticed clergymen have been oftener inacu-
rate than magistrates. This may be owing tc
greater carelessness, on the supposition thai
,cergymen can do no wrong. But whoever may
be wrong the oftenest, and whatever may be tht
o,e - - Fori 10 to ond
No one wants MS marriage published or recorded
wrong, and every one should understand tina
generally the cause of the wrong publication o
record is that the notice is furnished wrong
And if what we now say is not sufficient to in
duce accuracy in marriage notices furnished
hereafter for publication in the Telegraph or 70
record in the Registers Office of Kenosha County
we shall, when we know them to be inaccurate
point out their inaccuracies in connection
with those who furnish them, that thos
desiring to be married may avoid call
ing on such persons to marry them. If thi
does not bring about accuracy, especially i
notices for record, we shall be in favor of maxim
the furnishing of inaccurate notices for record
penal offence.
Since the fore going was in type We have ex
amined several marriage notices furnished tn
Register for record. Some of them have not we
been recorded but, like deeds and mortgages
they are matters of record from the time they ar
fled and cannot be altered. Some of them 81
even worse than we had supposed. Not only ii
names of the parties married ale sometime
wrong, but the names of the parents, the witnes
es and the persons at whose residences IL
parties were married are also wrong. And VIII
is equally bad if not worse is Shet some parts
them are written so illegibly that it is very dif
cult or impossible to read them. In such cas-
we believe that Registers generally do n
attempt to record the notices legibiy, but ent
on book, as near as possible, fac SMILES of the
thus recording Highly illegible notices.
All will be able to see The commencing evi
resulting from the furnishing of incorrect
1lleeible marriage notices. The ultimate ev