Marriage in San Francisco ?

[alan w jones]

Hello , not sure if BMD's can be researched in the U S A but would be interested to see if there is a marriage of a Dorothy Eleanor Sims to a Elmer Cunningham , not sure of date but she was born 1921 .
Regards
Alan

[*Sandra*]

Dorothy Eleanor Cunningham - 2 September 1921 - passed away 3 May 1962 - San Mateo California

FIND A GRAVE

Burial - Golden Gate National Cemetery  San Bruno, San Mateo County, California.
PLOT Y, 1585

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3565466

The family search collections list gives a fairly comprehensive list of ewhat is available in the USA

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list

Haven't come across a marriage in the time frame you require.


Sandra

[*Sandra*]

San Mateo, California, City Directory, 1952/54  shows Dorothy and Elmer Cunningham 708 Bayswater av Burl San Mateo, California.

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

An earlier entry 1946 and 1947  - San Mateo, California, City Directory - 708 Bayswater Burl San Mateo - Dorothy and Elmer.

A 1942 entry shows Elmer on his own - 912 El Camino Burl Hillsborough San Mateo. Apprentice Painter.

Sandra

[alan w jones]

Thanks Sandra , that is great , no sign of their marriage as yet .
Regards
Alan

[alan w jones]

I am wondering if Dorothy and Elmer may have got married after his possible call up in WW2 ? Could be anywhere though .
Regards
Alan

[*Sandra*]

No but its narrowed the time frame. 

Burlingame, California, City Directory, 1942  shows Dorothy Simms - 201 1st S M Burlingame; Hillsborough; San Mateo, California.  Seamstress.

Sandra

[jorose]

http://www.smcgs.org/research/databases
 - some indexes to San Mateo records here.

I can't see them on the marriage index, the birth index does have some Cunningham/Simms children , earliest I can see is 1946.

It might be worth looking for US Gretna Greens; perhaps they wanted to marry in a hurry:
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Gretna_Greens_in_the_United_States

For example, couples from California often appear marrying in Nevada.

[RJ137]

The Press Democrat
Santa Rosa, California
Tuesday, September 22, 1942 - Page 3

 MARRIAGE LICENSES

(Applications)
Alcuin Paulus, 24, Mill Valley, and Elwin M. Williams, 19, Guerneville.
Walter J. Kramer. 36, Da It hotel, San Francisco, and Evelyn Perriman. 36. San Jose.
Homer W. Mannix, 26, and Avis Allen, 19, both of San Francisco.

(Issued)
Thomas J. Thompson, 34, and Jessie Mann, 29, both of 552 Hudspeth street.
David Mendelssohn. 26. Vallejo. and Agnes Lichtenfeld, 21, Route 1, Box 255, Petaluma.
Elmer F. Cunningham, 20, 1245 McConnell avenue, and Dorothy Simms, 21, 201 First avenue, San Mateo.
Harold Harwood Woerner, 23, and Helen Irene MrKim, 18, both of Hiawatha, Kansas.

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The Press Democrat
Santa Rosa, California
Friday, October 26, 1945 - Page 2

Honorably discharged at Bay and Powell separation center in San Francisco, Elmer F. Cunningham has left the coast guard and returned to "civilian life. He has been in the service three years, 26 months of it spent overseas. He and his wife are living in San Mateo, but will return here November 1 and join his sister and brother-in-law in a week's salmon fishing at Fort Bragg