Lower Canada Marriage Bonds : 1779-1842, 1860.
| Call Number: | HIL-MICL FC LPR .Q4P7M2 |
| Category: | Quebec |
| Creator: | Quebec and Lower Canada. Provincial and Civil Secretary. |
| Description: | 4 microfilm textual records (19 volumes) ; 35 mm |
| Background: |
Persons who were married following publication of banns in their parish churches were not required to have a marriage licence, and thus did not post a bond. Those wishing to be married by licence were required to have two bonds posted affirming that there was no lawful impediment to the marriage.
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| Contents: |
The series contains marriage bonds and marriage licence correspondence. The bonds are arranged in a numbered sequence, but grouped by year with each year forming a volume. The last reel contains eight pages of marriage licences for 1843 and 1844.
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| Originals: | The original documents are held by the National Archives of Canada. |
| Archival Ref. No.: | NAC RG 4, B 28. |
| Finding Aids: |
A nominal index on microfilm serves as a finding aid to the Bonds.
A microfilm shelf list which identifies the arrangement of the bonds within the volumes is available in print and as a PDF in the electronic finding aid section.
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| Electronic Finding Aid Record: |
QC Provincial and Civil Secretary Marriage Bonds Shelf List.pdf Inventory-Description_Lower-Canada-Marraige-Bonds_LC-Prov-Secretary.pdf |
| Notes: | |
| Part Of: | The Lower Canada Marriage Bonds are contained in Volumes 29-41A of the larger series of miscellaneous records known as Bonds, Licences and Certificates, 1763-1867, consisting of 138 volumes. |
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