Grayson County TXGenWeb

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Marriage & Divorce Records

Grayson County marriage records were recorded as early as 1845. Some earlier marriages can be found in Fannin County, Texas records and in the State Archives' Republic of Texas records.

For early day marriages, always view Texas Maps to see what counties or areas existed to know a county in a certain time frame. Here is an excellent source, just choose the period of time on the grid to the left, hover your mouse over the area and it will give you the name of the district or county.

Marriage records in modern Grayson County are kept in the County Clerks office. There is a short period in which the marriage was complete that it must be filed at the courthouse after a wedding. Due to Ministers or others not able to file on time, due to the Red River flooding, they were filed in the nearest other courthouse so often it was in Durant, Bryan County, Oklahoma. And a few in Fannin County, Texas when the Choctaw Creek was in high flood stages.

Grayson County people often went to Bryan Co., Oklahoma, just north of the Texas/Oklahoma border to marry. Due to the fact that there was not a a waiting period requirement in Oklahoma to obtain a marriage license, Texas residents went into Oklahoma. A common trend was for couples to be married sitting in a buggy on the bridges between Oklahoma and Texas, which are under the state of Oklahoma. Texas starts on the south side of the Red River.

Did you know? the certificate above was a fancy decorative one that was given to Ministers for free by the Bible book publishers (ministers Always sold Bibles or ordered them until the 1880s when stores carried them) They were filled out at the wedding and given to the couple that very day.
The actual marriage certificate is one that was signed by witnesses on the wedding day and completed and filed at the courthouse By the minister within 30 days.
Couples had to go to the courthouse to receive their actual marriage Certificate. Many did not ever pick it up. Sometimes the courthouse will give a descendant the actual certificate if it is still in the Courthouse!

Most of the Texas Marriage Records are in the FamilySearch website; links below.
You can use some of them just by clicking on them on the links on this page; but to see actual images as noted,
you need to make a free sign in at FamilySearch.
For some reason there are lots of Marriage Indexes at the state level and they overlap years.

Grayson County Marriage Local Newspaper Notices - Index	Genealogy Trails History Group - Grayson Marriage Notices
Texas Church Marriages 1845 - 1957 (This contains the actual images of book pages but they have not been indexed. You use the written index in the front {or sometimes found in the back of each Marriage book} and then turn to the page number you found)	Oklahoma Marriage Records at FamilySearch & Oklahoma Choctaw Nation Marriages
Texas Marriage Index 1837 - 1973	Texas Marriage Records 1837 - 1965 actual images
Texas Marriage Index 1837 - 1977	Texas Church Marriage Index 1839 - 1982
Grayson County Marriages 1846 - 1877 (Online book by Frances Terry Ingmire)	Golden Anniversaries Local Newspaper Notices.
Texas Marriage Index 1966 - 2010	Grayson County Divorces
Bigamest, Clyde Robertson of El Paso who married Miss Marie Mayes of Sherman 1916