Marriage Records Primer

Kenton County has two locations for the recording of marriages, Covington and Independence. Independence started recording marriages in 1840 and Covington in 1874. Many of the early Independence records are now housed in Covington (see the table below); others are in the Kentucky archives in Frankfort, particularly the "loose papers".

Below you will find the Marriage records on the Kenton site. Those that have been transcribed have links to the transcriptions. Generally the transcriptions contain only the names and date. The image files contain more data such as birthplace etc.

1840-1940 Kenton Marriages Index - Independence Court House

submitted by Kerry & Carolyn

Note: Even though the names on these pages are in alphabetical order there are some cases where names can be found out of order. It is best to check ALL images in a letter group as there are instances of the addition of names either on the last page of a letter group or as a write in after the fact.

1840–1940

Marriage Records Various Years

1852
Title 2 3 4
1853
2
1853–1854
Title 2 3 4 5 6
Title 2 3 4 5
1855
Title 2 3 4 5
Title 2 3 4 5
1856
Title 2 3 4
1858–1859
Title 2 3 4 5 6
Title 2 3 4 5 6
1868
1874–1875
Title pages 2–19
1876–1879
Title 2 3 4 5
Title 2 3 4 5
1903–1904
Title 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
1906–1907
Title 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33