Marriage Certificates (1870-1874)

No. 1776

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

John Luscombe of the Town of Clifton in the County of Welland, Bachelor and Ableonah Fay of the same place, 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 Clifton this Twenty sixth day of October 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.

N. Preston Issuer

John Luscombe & Ableonah Fay

Clifton, Oct. 29 1870

No. 1775

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

James Pirrie of the Village of Queenston, Bachelor and Elizabeth Johnston of the same place, 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 the Town of Clifton this Twenty third day of November 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.

N. Preston Issuer

James Pirrie & Elizabeth Johnston

Nov 24 1870 Clifton

No. 1776

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

George Symon Robertson of the Town of Clifton in the County of Welland Bachelor and Margaret Sarah Thompson of the same place, 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 the Town of Clifton aforesaid this Eighth day of February in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy one‚ and of Her Majesty’s Reign the Thirty fourth

[signature illegible] Deputy Governor.

N. Preston Issuer