On 04 Nov 1851, Clark Gibson (son of John Gibson and Sarah Waters) and Maryette Olds (daughter of Willard Olds and Hannah Elizabeth Shults) were married in either St. Armands East or Stanbridge, Missisquoi County, Canada East, Province of Canada.
The Marriage Record of Clark Gibson and Maryette Olds – 1851
SOURCE: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montréal, Québec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin., Baptist Church of St. Armands East, Missisquoi County, Canada East, Province of Canada, 1851. Marriage Record of Clark Gibson and Maryette Olds, verso folio 14.
Click on the image above to enlarge it. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Marriage Record of Clark Gibson and Maryette Olds. The record reads:
Registry of the Mar
riage between Clark
Gibson of St Armands
East. Blacksmith aged
twenty four years
and Miss Mary Etts
of St Armands
West aged sixteen
years by consent
of Parents. this fourth
day of November
One One Thousand
eight Hundred
and fifty one
                      F N Jersey
                      Minister
Husband}Â Â Â Â Clark Gibson
Wife               Mary Etts
Witnesses}Â Â David French
                      Marum Gibson
This record can be found as image 15/22 in the Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 on Ancestry.com in the records for St-Armand-Est (Baptist Church) 1851. The record appears on verso folio 14 (the back of folio 14).
In this particular record, all signatures are in the minister’s hand, which may account for the fact that Maryette Olds’ name is written as Mary Etts.
In a personal communication, Marlene Simmons informed me that a second record of this marriage appears, with original signatures, in the records of the Baptist Church serving Stanbridge, Quebec (second register for the year 1849+) on the front of folio 41.
I am not certain why the marriage appears in the records for two different Baptist Churches, one in St. Armands East and one in Stanbridge. The two records contain the same information except that, in the record from Stanbridge, Maryette Olds signed her own name while, in the St. Armands East record shown here, the minister wrote her name incorrectly as Mary Etts.
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