150-year-old marriage certificate found at thrift shop to be given to couple’s great-granddaughter

While cleaning a picture frame, a hope chest thrift employee found a nearly 150 year old marriage license nailed inside the back. It was so old only the year city and couples first name's William and Katie are eligible and this couple was married in New Jersey and somehow the certificate found its way to a thrift store on old Ocean highway in Bolivia north Carolina a unique find. So W. W. A. Y. Aired a story on the discovery not long after while home in upstate new york William and Katie Duckworth's great granddaughter, Irene cornish decided to log into ancestry dot com on a whim I haven't been on ancestry in quite a few months but was actually went on to research a family member on the other side and I happened to notice I had these messages, messages from viewers who were able to track cornish down. The cornish doesn't know how this love story began. She knows her great grandmother. Catherine have moved to America toward the end of the irish potato famine. Her great grandfather, William Dolworth had his own ventriloquist e and fire eating acts. But some questions still remain. Now though we don't know exactly why that marriage certificate was hidden in the back of that frame. We do know that according to ancestry dot com William and Catherine had a child out of wedlock two years before their marriage certificate was filed and how the frame wound up in north Carolina, sadly the family homestead, the person that inherited that in the family at one point basically sold everything that was in it to a local thrift shop and ultimately lost their homes. Though the mystery isn't completely solved, cornish says she feels more connected than ever to family. She's only heard stories about when my mother passed away five years ago. I don't have any family immediate family in the area where I live, so I feel a little isolated at times and so it just felt comforting that most of these people are reaching out somehow. I am connected in Brunswick county Peyton Furtado, W W A. Y News.

150-year-old marriage certificate found at thrift shop to be given to couple's great-granddaughter

Updated: 12:01 AM EDT Aug 12, 2021

A woman in New York was tracked down after her great-grandparent's marriage certificate from 150 years ago was found at a North Carolina thrift store.The marriage certificate was found nailed in the back of an old picture frame, WWAY-TV reported."I haven't been on Ancestry in quite a few months," Irene Cornish told the TV station. "I actually went on to research a family member on the other side. And I happened to notice I had these messages."Those messages were people who had tracked down Cornish after seeing a story about the 150-year-old marriage license being found.Watch the video above to learn more about this story.

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, N.C. —

A woman in New York was tracked down after her great-grandparent's marriage certificate from 150 years ago was found at a North Carolina thrift store.

The marriage certificate was found nailed in the back of an old picture frame, WWAY-TV reported.

"I haven't been on Ancestry in quite a few months," Irene Cornish told the TV station. "I actually went on to research a family member on the other side. And I happened to notice I had these messages."

Those messages were people who had tracked down Cornish after seeing a story about the 150-year-old marriage license being found.

Watch the video above to learn more about this story.