Wedding Wednesday--Frederick Marriage Certificate

This is the marriage certificate for my maternal great uncle, Robert Bell Frederick who married Mary Alice Bradley on June 20, 1906 at St. John's Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Highlighted in yellow is my maternal grandmother, Martha Marie Frederick who married Charles Edward Stark on June 10, 1914.

I believe that the copy of this certificate was sent to me by Roxanne Anderson Frederick, wife of Robert Bell Frederick II.

© 2010, copyright Linda Hughes Hiser

Wedding Wednesday--Junior Bridesmaid

Thank you to my good blogging friend Carol over at Reflections From the Fence for adding this meme to our weekly blogging events.

I admit that I have few wedding/marriage photos and documents in my cache of genealogical items. This week I am featuring......myself! This is my first memory of a wedding and I was a participant......the junior bridesmaid.


The wedding united my Dad's sister, my Aunt Faith to Ed Roolf on May 7, 1955. I have come to understand that my paternal grandmother....aka Grams....had broken her arm or wrist and was unable to make the dresse. Grams was quite the seamstress and probably would have made dresses for the entire party. I have memories of walking up the street with Grams to a dressmakers for fittings for my little gown.


I can remember how proud I was to be a member of the bridal party and to have such a beautiful dress and bouquet. Believe it or not......I still have both the blue dotted swiss dress and the dried bouquet in a box in my basement.

© 2010, copyright Linda Hughes Hiser