{"id":13015,"date":"2021-02-13T08:48:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T14:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=13015"},"modified":"2021-02-14T09:05:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T15:05:21","slug":"where-was-the-nearest-gretna-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/13\/where-was-the-nearest-gretna-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Was the Nearest &#8220;Gretna Green?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In slang terms a &#8220;Gretna Green&#8221; is a location where a couple can easily get married&#8211;usually just about immediately upon arrival. Often the location is &#8220;right across&#8221; a political border with restrictions and requirement that are fairly lax. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While there was a literal Gretna Green in Scotland, the requirements there have changed over the years and &#8220;immediate&#8221; marriages appear to no longer be possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if you cannot find your ancestral couple&#8217;s marriage record in the location where they lived, check and see where the nearest Gretna Green was. That&#8217;s where they may have gone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or they may have just gone three counties over where no one knew their parents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In slang terms a &#8220;Gretna Green&#8221; is a location where a couple can easily get married&#8211;usually just about immediately upon arrival. Often the location is &#8220;right across&#8221; a political border with restrictions and requirement that are fairly lax. While there was a literal Gretna Green in Scotland, the requirements there have changed over the years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}