Marriage records

By His Excellency Lieutenant General WILLIAM ROWAN, C.B. Administrator of the Government of the Province of Canada, and Commander of Her Majesty's Forces therein, &c. &c. &c.

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

William Dawson of the Township of Charlotteville County of Norfolk and Province aforesaid, Farmer and Agnes Cowan 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 Nineteenth day of December in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty three and of Her Majesty's Reign the sixteenth year.

E.L. Larius Deputy Governor,

4424 By His Excellency’s Command, T.D. Harington

Licenses W. Dawson & Agnes Cowan Decr 21st 1853