1897 Marriage Record for Andrew Doyle and Margaret E. Taylor

I've started going through stacks of papers with genealogy/family history records that need attention and thought I would begin posting some of them....

Andrew Doyle, born January 8, 1873, is the son of Andrew and Elizabeth Jane (Laws) Doyle.  He is their sixth child and third son.  He was a miner and later also a farmer.  (I continue to find more and more miners among my Pennsylvania relatives, descendants of my Northumberland miners.)

Andrew married Margaret E. Taylor on March 17, 1897, in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.  Coincidentally, Andrew's oldest brother, William who is my great-grandfather, married Tressa Rose Froman on the same date in 1885.  William and Andrew were born 10 years apart and married 12 years apart.

Marriage Record and Transcription

[page] 206
No. 4654
Andrew Doyle born in Pardoe
on the 8 day of January A. D. 1873 residing at Stoneboro Pa
and a miner by occupation not related by blood or marriage
to the person whom he desires to marry
not married before
and Margaret E. Taylor born in Stoneboro Pa
on the 30" day of July A. D. 1877 residing at Stoneboro Pa
.... not married before  
And now this 16" day of March 1897 Marriage License issued in legal form.
Consent of Thomas Taylor residing at Stoneboro Pa.....
     Filed this 16 day of March 1897
     Duplicate Certificate returned and filed this 27 day of March 1897 showing
ceremony to have been performed by John Kelly
on the 17 day of March 1897

FamilySearch Citation and Link to Image
"Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VF9R-YC9 : accessed 01 Feb 2014), Andrew Doyle and Margaret E. Taylor, 17 Mar 1897; citing Mercer Pennsylvania, United States, v 7 p 206; FHL microfilm 878938.

Notes and Comments

• If I want to research Andrew's wife, Margaret Taylor, it's helpful that the record included her father's name.
• I wish a marriage location more specific than the county were included.  Were they married in a church, a courthouse, or somewhere else?
  
• John Kelly performed the marriage.  It's such a common name that I don't hope for much success in find him in 1897.  If I could perhaps it would help me to know a more specific location of their marriage.   
  

I have other records for this couple and family....  Somewhere.

—Nancy.

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