Marriage solemnized at: Meteghan, Clare

Digby, 1865
Nicholas, John
Commo, Victoria

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Province of Nova Scotia

Marriage solemnized at: Meteghan, Clare
In the County of: Digby

Date and Place of Marriage: 18 April 1865 Meteghan

How married; by License or Banns: by licence

Full name of GROOM: Jean Nicolas

His age: 40 years

Condition (Bachelor or Widower): Widower

Profession or Trade: Inn Keeper

Residence: Meteghan

Where born: Ajaccio, Corsica

Parents Names: Pierre Nicolas, Marie Napoléon

Their profession : farmer

Full name of BRIDE : Victoire Comeau

Her place of residence: Meteghan

Age: 35 years

Condition (Spinster or Widow): Spinster

Parents names: Marin Comeau, Magdeline Maillet

Their Profession: farmer

Witnesses names: Basile Robicheau, Rosalie Robicheau

Officiating Clergyman : L’abbé [[expand to “Ferdinand” on mouse over]]Ferd[[/expand]]. Blanchet

Denomination of Clergyman : Roman Catholic Priest

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No. 22

R. MacDonnell

Lt. Gov.

Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell

Knight, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Lieutenant-Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Province of Nova Scotia and its Dependencies, &c, &c, &c

To John Nicholas and Victoria Commo

Greeting:

WHEREAS it has been signified unto me, that there is a purpose of Marriage between you, the parties above names; and that being contracted to each other, you desire that a Marriage between you be Solemnized without Publication of the Banns of Matrimony, by the Reverend Ferd. Blanchet

The duly Ordained and settled Minister of the Roman Catholic

Congregation of Christians at Meteghan

In the County of Digby

in this Province, under a License to him to be directed, to authorize him to solemnize such Marriage without Publication of Banns, according to the Forms of the Church, or Religious Persuasion, to which the said Minister belongs. AND WHEREAS, for obtaining such License, it has been represented to me that no lawful impediment exists why you may not be lawfully married together, and that you are respectively of the full age of twenty-one years; or otherwise, that one or other of you, being under that age, has obtained the consent of your Parent or Parents, lawful Guardian or Guardians, respectively, to your Marriage.

NOW THEREFORE, upon your application for the said License, I, confiding in the representations to me made at the time of obtaining the same, and having received sufficient security in that behalf, and being willing that your desire may obtain due effect, Do hereby, for lawful causes, grant this, my License and Faculty, as well to you, the parties contracting, as also to the said Reverend Ferd. Blanchet

the Minister of the Congregation above named, authorizing and requiring you and him the said Marriage to celebrate and solemnize openly, without publication of Banns, according to the Forms of the Church or Religious Persuasion to which such Minister belongs; Provided always, that if, before or at the time of the solemnization of the said Marriage, there shall appear any just cause or lawful impediment to the said Marriage, or if the representation made for obtaining this License be in any respect untrue, or there appear to have been any fraud suggested or truth suppressed with regard to obtaining the same, then I inhibit you, the parties contracting, and the Minister above named in particular, that you and he do not provide to the celebration of the said Marriage without first consulting me thereupon.

Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at Halifax

This Twenty Second day of

Feb^y in the Twenty Eighth

Year of Her Majesty’s Reign 1865

BY HIS EXCELLENCY’S COMMAND

C.N Jones
Insurer of Licenses

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I hereby certify that the within mention persons

John Nicholas of Meteghan

And Victoire Comeau of Meteghan

Were Married by License, at Meteghan, Clare, Co. Digby

On the 18th day of April 1865 according to the

Rites and Ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church by me

Ferd. Blanchet

In the presence of Basile Robichau

and Rosalie Robichau

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Province of Nova Scotia

In the Province of Nova Scotia, are held and firmly bound to our Sovereign Lady VICTORIA ,by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, &c., in the sum of one Hundred Pounds, Lawful Money of Great Britain, to be paid over to our said Lady of the Queen, Her Heirs and Successors; for the true payment whereof we bind ourselves, and each of us by himself, for the whole and ever part thereof, and the Heirs, Executors and Administrators of us, and each of us, firmly by these Presents.

Sealed with our Seals, dated the Twenty Second day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-Five and in the Twenty-Eighth year of Her Majesty’s Reign.

WHEREAS there is a purpose of Contract of Marriage between the above named

And Whereas the said parties contracting being desirous that the intended Marriage between them should be solemnized without the Publication or Proclamation of the Banns of Matrimony, have caused application to be made to the Lieutenant Governor of the said Province for a License to be directed to the Reverend Fend. Blanchet

the duly ordained and settled Minister of the Roman Catholic

Congregation of Christians at Meteghan

in the County of Digby in this Province,

to authorize him, the said Minister to solemnize Marriage between the said parties contracting without Publication of Banns, and according to the Forms of the Church or Religious Persuasion aforesaid, to which he, the said Minister belongs. And Whereas, for obtaining such License, it hath been to the said Lieutenant Governor represented, that no lawful impediment exists why the said parties contracting may not be lawfully married together; and that they are respectively of the full age of Twenty-one years; or otherwise, that both or either of them, being under that age, have obtained the consent of their Parents or Parent, lawful Guardians or Guardian, respectively, to the said Marriage. Now, therefore, the condition of the above Obligation is such, that if there is not now, and at the time of the solemnization of the said Marriage there shall not be, or hereafter appear, any just cause or lawful impediment as aforesaid, or by reason of any pre-contact entered into heretofore, Consanguinity, Affinity, or any other cause whatsoever, by that the said parties contracting as aforesaid may be lawfully Married together, and thereafter remain as Husband and Wife, according to the laws in that behalf provided; and if the said parties contracting are respectively of the full age aforesaid, or being either or both of them under the full age of twenty-one years, have obtained the consent of their Parents or Parent, lawful Guardians, or Guardian, respectively to such Marriage: And further, if the said Marriage shall be openly solemnized according to the Forms of the Church or Religious Persuasion to which such Minister belongs: and likewise if the representation made for obtaining the License aforesaid be in all things true, and there be no fraud suggested or truth suppressed in respect thereof, then the above Obligation shall be void, but if otherwise, the same shall be and remain in full force and virtue.

Signed, Sealed and Delivered,

In the presence of

C Dwight Jones

John (his x mark) Nicholas
Stephen Jones