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 authorise me to grant Licenses for the Solemnization of Marriages: AND WHEREAS

John Lowe of the City of Toronto, Canada West widower, and Eliza Taylor of Vittoria, Canada West, Spinster Daughter of John Taylor of Port William, Scotland

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 their 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 Parson 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, Pre-contract, 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 Montreal this fourteenth day of August in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty nine and of Her Majesty's Reign the thirteenth year.

M CampbellMajor

By His Excellency's Command T.D. Harington

No. 3536

By His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir JOHN LISGAR, of Lisgar, and Baillieborough in the County of Cavan, Ireland, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., one of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor General of Canada, &c., &c., &c.

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

Hugh Neilson of the City of Toronto Bachelor and Catherine Carmichael of the Town of Allon, Scotland Spinster

are determined to enter into the Holy Bans 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 Bans, 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 the Province of Ontario, 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 Clifton in the County of Welland this First day of May in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy two‚ and of Her Majesty’s Reign the Thirty fifth

[signature illegible] Deputy Governor.

N. Preston Agt