Washington County Texas Marriage Records

Search For Marriage Records

NameAddressCityStateZip CodePhone Number
Washington County Marriage & Divorce Records Offices
Washington County Clerk100 East Main StreetBrenhamTX77833979-277-6200
Washington County Marriage License100 East Main StreetBrenhamTX77833979-277-6200
Brenham City Hall200 West Vulcan StreetBrenhamTX77833979-337-7272
Washington County Marriage & Divorce Records Databases
Washington County Clerk Website
Washington County Clerk's Office Birth Records
Washington County Clerk's Office Death Records
Washington County Clerk's Office Marriage Applications (Arkansas)
Washington County Divorce Certificates
Washington County Government Death Records
Washington County Marriage Certificates & Records
Statistics
Married Couples6,613 (54.2%)
Unmarried Couples362 (1.1%)
Never Married Men4,426 (31.9%)
Never Married Women3,858 (26.3%)
Separated Men377 (2.7%)
Separated Women440 (3.0%)
Widowed Men366 (2.6%)
Widowed Women1,974 (13.4%)
Divorced Men1,476 (10.6%)
Divorced Women1,443 (9.8%)

Where to Look For Marriage Records

What exactly is marriage records? The answer depends on how much time you want to spend digging into them. These are the documents that the county where you were married filed and that record the legal union of the two people in question. In Washington County Texas, these marriage records are considered part of the public domain and you can get access to them via the courts, the Vital Records Office, or through certain requests made by individuals who have something to hide. Fortunately, most states allow you access to some of this information for a small fee.

There are several ways to get access to these records. If you are looking to search for a person who has died and there is a death record, then you may have to use a different method. This information is only available in Texas and federal databases. If you are looking to get more information on someone with the current marriage record then you should either visit the office directly, call the office and ask to speak to one of the clerks or go online and do an internet search.

It’s not hard to find a marriage record in Washington County Texas. The office has all of the information you need. You can usually find out where a couple was married, when the wedding took place and the name of the officiator if it is known. If you have any other information on the couple then you may be able to piece together this information. Some other information available includes the parents names and the date of birth of both individuals.

You can also find marriage records by using the Texas Vital Statistics Office website. On this website you will find out what the couple’s parents’ names were, their social security numbers, their age at the time of the marriage and their wedding date. The only problem with this service is that it only holds the marriage license of the couple and does not have information on the marriage license itself. It does give information on children, places where the marriage would have taken place and the names of the officiant and ring bearer if it is known. This is a good resource to use if you are researching someone that has a known last name or if you want to research someone who is not known to you.

When it comes to searching Washington County Texas marriage records then you need to know a little bit about how they work. The most basic way to search these documents is to just go to the office directly. Many offices do allow you to search the records for free as long as you ask to be let in on some contact info like your name, address and social security number. There are different ways that you can access this type of information. One of the most popular ways is to go online to one of the many paid online databases for marriage records.

Paid websites offer you the best and most up to date results. They have done all the leg work for you. They have purchased the data from the county and put it into a database where you can search from one page to the next. You can search by names of people or by location or even by the name of the couple, if you want to. If you are looking for something a bit more personal like the personal details of the groom or the bride then there are additional fee based websites that you can visit. These sites offer the most detailed results possible for marriage records in Washington County Texas.