Marriage records

By His Excellency the Right Honorable JAMES, EARL OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Governor General of British North America, and Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Island of Prince Edward, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c. &c. &c.

WHEREAS Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to authorize Me to grant Licenses for the Solemnization of Marriages: AND WHEREAS

William Gage of the Township of Glandford in the County of Wentworth and Province of Canada , Yeoman, Batchelor and Eliza Gage of the Township of Oneida in the County of Haldimand, Province aforesaid, Spinster

are determined to enter into the Holy Banns of Matrimony, and are desirous of having their Marriage publicly Solemnized ; in order that such their honest desires may the more speedily have the due effect, and that they may be able to procure the same to be lawfully Solemnized without Publication of Banns, I do hereby, for good causes, give and grant this License of Faculty, as well to them the said Parties contracting, as to all or every Person or Minister, duly ordained and lawfully exercising his Ministry within that part of the Province of Canada heretofore constituting the Province of Upper Canada, to Solemnize and perform the same: Provided always, that by reason of any Affinity, Consanguinity, Precontract, or any other lawful cause, there be no legal impediment in this behalf, otherwise, if any fraud shall appear to have been committed, at the time of granting this License, either by false suggestions or concealment of the truth, that then this License shall be null and void, to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

Given under my Hand and Office seal, at Quebec, this sixteenth day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and 54 and of Her Majesty’s Reign the Eighteenth

E Larius Deputy Governor.

3568 By His Excellency’s Command, T.D. Harington

By His Excellency the Right Honorable JAMES, EARL OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Governor General of British North America, and Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Island of Prince Edward, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c. &c. &c.

WHEREAS Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to authorize Me to grant Licenses for the Solemnization of Marriages: AND WHEREAS

Joseph Holbrook of the Township of Oneida in the County of Haldimand Farmer, and Hannah Armstrong of the Township of Middleton in the County of Norfolk, Spinster

are determined to enter into the Holy Banns of Matrimony, and are desirous of having their Marriage publicly Solemnized ; in order that such their honest desires may the more speedily have the due effect, and that they may be able to procure the same to be lawfully Solemnized without Publication of Banns, I do hereby, for good causes, give and grant this License of Faculty, as well to them the said Parties contracting, as to all or every Person or Minister, duly ordained and lawfully exercising his Ministry within that part of the Province of Canada heretofore constituting the Province of Upper Canada, to Solemnize and perform the same: Provided always, that by reason of any Affinity, Consanguinity, Precontract, or any other lawful cause, there be no legal impediment in this behalf, otherwise, if any fraud shall appear to have been committed, at the time of granting this License, either by false suggestions or concealment of the truth, that then this License shall be null and void, to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

Given under my Hand and Office seal, at Quebec, this Twenty second day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty four and of Her Majesty’s Reign the Eighteenth

E Larius Deputy Governor.

4868 By His Excellency’s Command, T.D. Harington

By His Excellency the Right Honorable JAMES, EARL OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Governor General of British North America, and Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Island of Prince Edward, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c. &c. &c.

WHEREAS Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to authorize Me to grant Licenses for the Solemnization of Marriages: AND WHEREAS

Richard Barnes of the Town of Simcoe in the County of Norfolk and Province of Canada, Distiller and Christina Summerfield of the same place, Spinster

are determined to enter into the Holy Banns of Matrimony, and are desirous of having their Marriage publicly Solemnized ; in order that such their honest desires may the more speedily have the due effect, and that they may be able to procure the same to be lawfully Solemnized without Publication of Banns, I do hereby, for good causes, give and grant this License of Faculty, as well to them the said Parties contracting, as to all or every Person or Minister, duly ordained and lawfully exercising his Ministry within that part of the Province of Canada heretofore constituting the Province of Upper Canada, to Solemnize and perform the same: Provided always, that by reason of any Affinity, Consanguinity, Precontract, or any other lawful cause, there be no legal impediment in this behalf, otherwise, if any fraud shall appear to have been committed, at the time of granting this License, either by false suggestions or concealment of the truth, that then this License shall be null and void, to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

Given under my Hand and Office seal, at Quebec, this first day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four and of Her Majesty’s Reign the Eighteenth

E Larius Deputy Governor.

4539 By His Excellency’s Command, T.D. Harington

By His Excellency the Right Honorable JAMES, EARL OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Governor General of British North America, and Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Island of Prince Edward, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c. &c. &c.

WHEREAS Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to authorize Me to grant Licenses for the Solemnization of Marriages: AND WHEREAS

John McKee of the Village of Stratford in the County of Perth and Eleanor Jackson of the Town of Simcoe and the County of Norfolk, Spinster

are determined to enter into the Holy Banns of Matrimony, and are desirous of having their Marriage publicly Solemnized ; in order that such their honest desires may the more speedily have the due effect, and that they may be able to procure the same to be lawfully Solemnized without Publication of Banns, I do hereby, for good causes, give and grant this License of Faculty, as well to them the said Parties contracting, as to all or every Person or Minister, duly ordained and lawfully exercising his Ministry within that part of the Province of Canada heretofore constituting the Province of Upper Canada, to Solemnize and perform the same: Provided always, that by reason of any Affinity, Consanguinity, Precontract, or any other lawful cause, there be no legal impediment in this behalf, otherwise, if any fraud shall appear to have been committed, at the time of granting this License, either by false suggestions or concealment of the truth, that then this License shall be null and void, to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

Given under my Hand and Office seal, at Quebec, this twenty third day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty four and of Her Majesty’s Reign the Eighteenth

E Larius Deputy Governor.

4876 By His Excellency’s Command, T.D. Harington

By His Excellency the Right Honorable JAMES, EARL OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Governor General of British North America, and Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Island of Prince Edward, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c. &c. &c.

WHEREAS Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to authorize Me to grant Licenses for the Solemnization of Marriages: AND WHEREAS

George Budd of the Township of Walsingham and Mary Smith of the Township and County aforesaid, Spinster

are determined to enter into the Holy Banns of Matrimony, and are desirous of having their Marriage publicly Solemnized ; in order that such their honest desires may the more speedily have the due effect, and that they may be able to procure the same to be lawfully Solemnized without Publication of Banns, I do hereby, for good causes, give and grant this License of Faculty, as well to them the said Parties contracting, as to all or every Person or Minister, duly ordained and lawfully exercising his Ministry within that part of the Province of Canada heretofore constituting the Province of Upper Canada, to Solemnize and perform the same: Provided always, that by reason of any Affinity, Consanguinity, Precontract, or any other lawful cause, there be no legal impediment in this behalf, otherwise, if any fraud shall appear to have been committed, at the time of granting this License, either by false suggestions or concealment of the truth, that then this License shall be null and void, to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

Given under my Hand and Office seal, at Quebec, this Twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty four and of Her Majesty’s Reign the Eighteenth

E Larius Deputy Governor.

4879 By His Excellency’s Command, T.D. Harington