Marriage records

A No. 701

By His Excellency Lieutenant General SIR JOHN MICHEL, K. C.B. Administrator of the Government of the Province 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

William Pierre Vallentine of the City of Buffalo in the State of New York Widower and Cornelia Augusta Lyon of the City and State aforesaid 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 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 Six and of Her Majesty's Reign the Twenty ninth

J[?] Deputy Governor

William P Vallentine & Cornelia A Lyon Mar 7 1866