Marriage Certificates (1841-1842)

By His Excellency The Right Honourable SIR CHARLES BAGOT, G.C.B. one of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, 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 authorise me to grant Licenses for the Solemnization of Marriages : AND WHEREAS

Archibald McMullin of the Village of Brantford in the District Gore, Tailor and Jean Ewing of the same place, Spinster

are determined to enter into the Holy Banns of Matrimony, and are desirous of having their Marriage publicly Solemnized ; in order that such their honest desires may the more speedily have their due effect, and that they may be able to procure the same to be lawfully Solemnized, without publication of Banns, 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 Parson 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, Pre-contract, 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 Kingston this Twenty fifth day of July in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty two and of Her Majesty's Reign the sixth

Charles Bagot

By His Excellency's Command T.D. Harington

Christopher Wilson William Long Witnesses July 25 1842 Ham'n

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By His Excellency The Right Honourable SIR CHARLES BAGOT, G.C.B. one of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, 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 authorise me to grant Licenses for the Solemnization of Marriages : AND WHEREAS

Henry Kent of the Township of Nelson in the District of Gore Waggon maker and Elizabeth Moon of the same place, Spinster

are determined to enter into the Holy Banns of Matrimony, and are desirous of having their Marriage publicly Solemnized ; in order that such their honest desires may the more speedily have their due effect, and that they may be able to procure the same to be lawfully Solemnized, without publication of Banns, 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 Parson 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, Pre-contract, 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 Kingston this Twenty second day of August in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty two and of Her Majesty's Reign the sixth

Charles Bagot

By His Excellency's Command T.D. Harington

Married August 22nd 1842 in Hamilton Before Jacob Winter & Emma Kent

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His Excellency The Right Honourable SIR CHARLES BAGOT, G.C.B. one of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, 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 authorise me to grant Licenses for the Solemnization of Marriages : AND WHEREAS

Henry C. Nash of Saltfleet Gentlem and Lydia Holton of same place Spinster

are determined to enter into the Holy Banns of Matrimony, and are desirous of having their Marriage publicly Solemnized ; in order that such their honest desires may the more speedily have their due effect, and that they may be able to procure the same to be lawfully Solemnized, without publication of Banns, 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 Parson 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, Pre-contract, 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 Kingston this Twenty first day of September in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty two and of Her Majesty's Reign the Sixth

Charles Bagot

By His Excellency's Command T.D. Harington

Issued at Grimsby by Re. Fanning Nelles

Married in Saltfleet, Gore District Septr 22 1842 before Warren Halton & J. W. Lewis