Marriage Certificates (1844-1849)

By His Excellency Lieutenant General the Right Honorable CHARLES MURRAY, EARL CATHCART, of Cathcart, in the County of Renfrew, K.C.B., Administrator of the Government of the Province of Canada, and Commander of Her Majesty's Forces in British North America, &c. &c. &c.

WHEREAS, Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to authorise me to grant Licenses for the Solemnization of Marriages: AND WHEREAS

Duncan Cameron of Elmsly of the Johnston District & Province aforesaid, Farmer & Janet McMullen of Cumberland in the Ottawa District & Province aforesaid, 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 Montreal this 11th day of March in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-six and of Her Majesty's Reign the Ninth year.

Cathcart

By His Excellency's Command T.D. Harington

Marriage License Duncan Cameron, Elmsley & Janet McMillan, Cumberland

12th March 1846

By His Excellency Lieutenant General the Right Honorable CHARLES MURRAY, EARL CATHCART, of Cathcart, in the County of Renfrew, K.C.B., Administrator of the Government of the Province of Canada, and Commander of Her Majesty's Forces in British North America, &c. &c. &c.

WHEREAS, Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to authorise me to grant Licenses for the Solemnization of Marriages: AND WHEREAS Henry Major, of the Township of Pickering, in the Home District and Province of Canada, Widower, and Lydia Anne Hawkins, 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 Montreal this Twentieth day of March in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty six and of Her Majesty's Reign the Ninth year.

Cathcart

By His Excellency's Command T.D. Harington

Pickerin April 5th 1846

This is to certify that Henry Major and Lydia Ann Hawkins both of this Township were this day lawfully Married by me Israel Marsh Pastor of the Baptist Church in Whitby being qualified by the within Licence. Israel Marsh

in the presence of James Hawkins Elizabeth Hawkins

By His Excellency Lieutenant General the Right Honorable CHARLES MURRAY, EARL CATHCART, of Cathcart, in the County of Renfrew, K.C.B., Administrator of the Government of the Province of Canada, and Commander of Her Majesty's Forces in British North America, &c. &c. &c.

WHEREAS, Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to authorise me to grant Licenses for the Solemnization of Marriages: AND WHEREAS

Allen Wilson of Cumberland in the Ottawa District & Province aforesaid , Farmer & Mary Spence 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 Montreal this 1st day of June in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty six and of Her Majesty's Reign the Ninth year.

J.M. Higginson

By His Excellency's Command T.D. Harington