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

Andrew Adams of the Township of Woodhouse in the County of Norfolk and Province of Canada, Labourer, and Margaret Madden 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 Bans, I do hereby for good causes give and grant this License of Faculty as well as 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 Seal at Toronto this fourteenth day of October in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty and of Her Majesty's Reign the fourteenth

Elgin & Kincardine

By His Excellency's Command, T.D. Harington

Marriage Licence Andrew Adams & Margaret Madden Oct. 28th 1850