Marriage records

No. 1005

By His Excellency The Right Honorable Sir JOHN YOUNG, Baronet, K.C.B., one of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor General 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

David McKenzie late of St Paul in the State of Minnesota Bachelor and Martha Lemon of the Township of Stamford in the County of Welland Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada 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 the Province of Ontario , 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 Ottawa this first day of April in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Sixty nine and of Her Majesty's Reign the thirty second

[signature illegible] Deputy Governor

David McKenzie & Martha Lemon Apr. 1 1869