The legend is that on February 2, 1961, against Madelyn’s hopes, and against the desires of Obama’s father back in Kenya, Ann, three months pregnant, and Obama hopped a plane to Maui and got married. The wedding had no witnesses, not even her parents, and no record of the event has yet been found.
Obama, himself, hints that his father and mother’s wedding may not have been properly documented. “How and when the marriage occurred remains a bit murky, a bill of particulars that I have never quite had the courage to explore. There’s no record of a real wedding, a cake, a ring, a giving away of the bride. No families were in attendance; it’s not even clear that people back in Kansas were informed.” Obama writes in his memoir.
The lack of any documentary evidence, when such evidence for legal marriages that took place in Hawaii during 1961 is readily available today to any inquiring family member, strongly suggests that Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Senior were not ever legally married and that Senior, a married man of 25, almost certainly impregnated the 17-year-old Dunham, since nine months before Obama’s birth would be early November 1960, about three to four weeks before Ann Dunham’s 18th birthday on November 29, 1960.
And this, Michelle Obama says that Senior and Anna were never married. She described Anna as “very young and very single when she had him (Obama).”
And this — There is no evidence whatsoever that Senior and Anna ever lived together anywhere, any time. The living arrangements between the announcement of the wedding and the birth of the child were uncertain. Most likely, Senior remained in his dorm room while Ann lived with her parents.
Letters written by acquaintances of Senior during the period 1960-1961 with accompanying photographs do not mention or show Anna at all.
Wasn’t there a newspaper announcement in the Honolulu paper in 1961 of the One’s birth, with parents as Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama? I think some people have questioned whether they actually lived at the address given, but as far as I know no one doubts that the newspaper notice is genuine (was actually published on that date in Honolulu).
If you are going to do a wholesale cut-n’paste from The Obama File, you might have the courtesy of including a source/link.
http://theobamafile.com/_family/ObamaDunhamMarriage.htm