Marriage Certificates (1870-1874)

Herbert M. Prentice & Helen Fuller

Married at Clifton March 27 1873

No. 8239

By His Excellency the Right Honorable FREDERICK TEMPLE, EARL OF DUFFERIN K.P., K.C.B., P.C., Governor General of Canada, and Governor and Commander in Chief of the Island of Prince Edward, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to authorize Me to grant Licenses for the Solemnization of Marriages : AND WHEREAS

William Fleckson of the City of Lockport in the Niagara County in the State of New York one of the United States, Bachelor and Arabella Moye of the Town of Clifton in the County of Welland and Province of Ontario, 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 Drummondville this Seventh day of April in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy two‚ and of Her Majesty’s Reign the Thirty fifth

[signature illegible] Deputy Governor.

William Fleckson & Arabella Moyer April 15 1873

No. 9736

By His Excellency the Right Honorable FREDERICK TEMPLE, EARL OF DUFFERIN K.P., K.C.B., P.C., Governor General of Canada, and Governor and Commander in Chief of the Island of Prince Edward, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to authorize Me to grant Licenses for the Solemnization of Marriages : AND WHEREAS

Alexander Lakie of the Town of Clifton in the County of Welland, Bachelor and Anne Locke 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 in the County of Welland this Twenty-eighth day of May in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy three‚ and of Her Majesty’s Reign the Thirty fifth

[signature illegible] Deputy Governor.

N. Preston Issuer

Alexander Lakie & Annie Locke

Clifton, May 30 1873