Marriage records

No 2188

By His Excellency The Right Honorable Sir EDMUND WALKER HEAD, Baronet, One of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, 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,

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

Charles F Smith, Bachelor and Adelaide Bennett Widow

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 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 Quebec this Twenty seventh day of July in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty and of Her Majesty's Reign the Twenty fourth

HS Ross Deputy Governor

Charles F Smith & Adelaide Bennett July 27 1860