Paul Rankin, U.S.A. & Laura Johnson, U.S.A. (28 Jul. 1868)

No. 6527

By His Excellency The Right Honorable
CHARLES STANLEY VISCOUNT MONCK, Baron Monck of Ballytrammon, in the County
of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland, and Baron Monck of Ballytrammon
in the County of Wexford, in the Peeragae of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, 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

Paul Rankin M.D. of George Town
in the County of Scott in the State of Kentucky
one of the States of the United States Widower and
Laura Johnson of the Town State aforesaid
Widow

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 Drummondville
this Twenty Seventh day of July
in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and Sixty Eight and of Her
Majesty's Reign the

[signature illegible]
Deputy Governor