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Marie F Mark

Born about 1890; death not recorded

Marie F. Mark was born about 1890 and is recorded as a wife of August William Mayer, who was born in 1907 — seventeen years after her. Two children, Alice and William Francis, are attached to the pair. The age gap and the children's dates together suggest she was a later wife whose children came from an earlier marriage, rather than the mother of August's children, but nothing yet proves it either way.

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Marie F. Mark was born about 1890 and is recorded as a wife of August William Mayer, who was born in 1907 — seventeen years after her. Two children, Alice and William Francis, are attached to the pair. The age gap and the children's dates together suggest she was a later wife whose children came from an earlier marriage, rather than the mother of August's children, but nothing yet proves it either way.

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Recorded as: ABT 1890, USA

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  • New York City, New York

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NYC marriage index, 1866-1937 — controlled sweep of twelve archive couples, 21 August 2026

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Twelve couples tested by intersecting both spouses' rows on county, certificate number and year: no matches. Controls: surname Mayer alone returns 1,025 rows for 1922-1937, and the GGG (all-records) and City (digitised-only) indexes return identical counts for every name tested.
Citation: NYC marriage index, 1866-1937 — controlled sweep of twelve archive couples, 21 August 2026. Held by NYC DORIS open data, cross-checked against the German Genealogy Group transcription.. View source (data.cityofnewyork.us)

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  • Dates, places, occupations and relationships imported from the 1 August 2026 Geni export require verification against original records.
  • [CONFLICT — LIKELY MIS-ASSEMBLED] This archive records August William Mayer (b. 1 February 1907) as the father of Alice (b. about 1923) and William Francis (b. 14 October 1925) by Marie F. Mark (b. 1890). The arithmetic does not work comfortably: August would have been sixteen and eighteen, and Marie was seventeen years older than him. His documented marriage is to Florence Selig, by whom Joan (1934) and Ruth (1936) fit his age exactly. The likeliest readings are that Marie was a later wife and Alice and William were her children by an earlier marriage — that is, his stepchildren — or that these two belong to a different Mayer altogether. No relationship has been deleted, because nothing yet disproves any of them; but none of the four pages now states the parentage as fact. A New York marriage record for August and Marie, or birth certificates for Alice and William naming their father, would settle it.
  • [NEGATIVE, CONTROLLED — NOT MARRIED IN NEW YORK CITY] Tested on 21 August 2026 against the New York City marriage index by intersecting both spouses' rows on county, certificate number and year. No certificate joins them. Two controls make the zero usable: the surname alone returns hundreds of rows, so the query works; and the GGG transcription of every record and the City's index of digitised records return identical counts, so this is a real absence and not a scanning gap. Within the index's coverage — five boroughs, 1866-1937 — they married somewhere else. Finding 158.

References

  1. [1] NYC marriage index, 1866-1937 — controlled sweep of twelve archive couples, 21 August 2026Back to citation 1

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