Marriage Certificates (1870-1874)

John Offield & Barbara McKerlie

Clifton July 1 1870

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

Gavin Marshall & Matilda Graham

Clifton, July 15 1870

No. 2035

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

Joseph Eberley of the Township of Bertie in the County Welland and Province of Ontario (Farmer) and Elizabeth Morningstar of the Township of Willoughby in the County and Province 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 Bertie this Fourteenth day of October in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy‚ and of Her Majesty’s Reign the 33rd

[signature illegible] Deputy Governor.

Peter Leann Agent at Mulgrave

Joseph Eberley & Elizabeth Morningstar

Clifton Oct 18 1870