Marriage records

No. 8424

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

Mr. Gavin Marshall of Town of Paris and Miss Matilda Graham Spinster of the Town of Paris both of the County of Brant Ontario

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 License of Faculty as well 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 Office Seal, at Brantford this the 13th day of July 1870 in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy‚ and of Her Majesty’s Reign the Thirty fourth

[signature illegible] Deputy Governor.

Duncan McKay Agt Brantford 13th July 1870

Humberford

Province of Ontario

By His Excellency the Honorable JOHN CRAWFORD &c. &c. LieutenantGovernor of the Province of Ontario

WHEREAS

William McCarter of the Township of Brant in the County of Bruce, Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada Bachelor and Matilda McDonald of the Township County Province and Dominion 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 License of Faculty as well 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 Office Seal, at Toronto, this First day of July in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy four‚ and in the thirty-eighth year of Her Majesty's reign.

M Maclean Issuer Walkerton 31st day of Augt. 1874