She received from her father a marriage portion of 4000 marks.

For marriage portions to poor girls of said parish, 30,000 dollars.

Nine years later in September 1672, Charles made her another present of £2,150 as a marriage portion.

Maud had a marriage portion, Tetbury from her father's estate.

Anne brought with her a marriage portion of £10,000 and estates in Glamorganshire.

"It was settled upon Ysmay for a marriage portion."

Some women left home to live on their own because of crowding at home; or to save for future marriage portions.

The idea was that the proper way of providing for a woman was by giving her a marriage portion.

But the women were heads of families; they came about land disputes, or taxes, or marriage portions.

Will you take the princess and her dominions with my love thrown in as a marriage portion?"

He also promised to provide them with marriage portions and to marry them to "gentlemen born".

You have already borrowed against Ilissa's marriage portion.

"You give me the hundred thousand guilders as a marriage portion, don't you?

They sent this marriage portion," she added proudly.

References were made to sizable marriage portions.

The mehrieh (marriage portion payable to the wife) was taxed above the level considered customary by the government.

Boys would learn a trade and girls domestic skills, and maybe even be given a marriage portion, assuming they remained Protestant.

Ann's marriage portion was £2,000, a sizeable sum for those days and when her husband died in 1839, this amount was still intact.

He spent considerable sums to keep up their profile at court, and provided generous marriage portions to improve their matches.

Another cause for complaint was that he gave away some of his estates as marriage portions for his nieces.

She brought as her marriage portion, the sum of 3,000 ducats besides valuable jewellery, dishes, and a silver service.

As a marriage portion, he gave her the Manor of Cleydon, Buckinghamshire.

Marriage portion, another term for dowry.

She was employed as a maid, she told him, and saving her money for a marriage portion when she returned to Cherokee land.

She travelled on an oxcart, which carried also her marriage portion: hens, geese and boxes with all necessary things.