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Research in Other Countries => United States of America => US Lookup Requests => Topic started by: RIDGE on Sunday 30 April 17 22:21 BST (UK)
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Lookup please for naturalization record for Mary Agnes Ridge (nee Moylan) who left Scotland (lived in Glasgow) and emigrated to USA Boston Massachusetts. I believe she was born in England abt.1877/8 and hope this record will confirm her birthplace and year of birth. She married George Moylan in Boston 1899 and died 8/10/1946 in Boston, Suffolk, Mass. Please can someone help. Thanks.
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If she married a U.S. citizen at that time she would have automatically become a citizen herself.
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I see a naturalization record for a Mary Agnes Ridge in Massachusetts, but she was born 1895 and arrived 1913. So that doesn't look like yours.
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In 1855 Congress granted American citizenship to any alien woman who married a U.S. citizen husband.
Well not quite.
As a result of the Naturalization Act, until 1870 only free white women could attain citizenship when they married American citizens. Other foreign women, such as Chinese, could not attain citizenship through their marriage to American citizens.
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Thank you all for your help and the useful information.