Marriage records

No. 6378

By His Excellency The Right Honorable CHARLES STANLEY [MONCK], VISCOUNT MONCK, Baron Monck of Ballytrammon, in the County of Wexford, 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

Robert Wallace of the township of Stamford in the County of Welland and Province of Canada, Bachelor and Elizabeth Evangeline Ferguson of the township, County and Province aforesaid

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 Seventh day of March in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Sixty four and of Her Majesty's Reign the Twenty Seventh

HS Ross Deputy Governor

R. Wallace & E.E. Ferguson March 7 1864