Marriage records

No. 6086

By His Excellency The Right Honorable Sir JOHN YOUNG, Baronet G.C.B., G.C.M.G., 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

John Dawson of the Township of Stamford in the County of Welland Widower and Margaret Lawrence of the same place 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 Clifton this fifteenth day of November in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Sixty nine and of Her Majesty's Reign the thirtythird

[signature illegible] Deputy Governor

H Preston, Issr. Clifton, Ont

John Dawson & Elizabeth Lawrence Nov 18 1869

John Dawson Son of Benjamin & Janet Born Heughtand Strathdown Age 44th

Margaret Lawrence Daughter of John & Elizabeth Born St Fregus age 28th yr