I found my grandparents marriage registration on Ancestry.com. They lived in Detroit, but for some reason married in Windsor in 1907. I have questions about some of the information given on the registration. I would like to know if it's possible to order a copy of the actual marriage license from either the Ontario Archives or the main archives in Ottawa. I want to determine if they married in a church or by a judge, and if it was in church, which one. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thank You! Elaine O'. in Missouri

The image that you get on ancestry.ca is the same one that is available at either the National or the Ontario Archives. You might be able to get church information from the clergyman's name on the registration BUT if they were married in Windsor there is very large chance that they were married by a JP. Mary ------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: ontario-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ontario-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Elaine O'Neill Sent: June-13-07 12:52 PM To: ONTARIO@rootsweb.com Subject: [ONTARIO] Windsor Marriage Record I found my grandparents marriage registration on Ancestry.com. They lived in Detroit, but for some reason married in Windsor in 1907. I have questions about some of the information given on the registration. I would like to know if it's possible to order a copy of the actual marriage license from either the Ontario Archives or the main archives in Ottawa. I want to determine if they married in a church or by a judge, and if it was in church, which one. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thank You! Elaine O'. in Missouri *********** Search Ontario Genealogy & Resources at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/can/ont/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ONTARIO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thank you to Mary and Heather who have cleared up any question I had about my grandparents marriage record. Now I have to find out if they ever had their marriage blessed in the Church, and if so where. My father and his sister were both baptized in the Catholic Church and that would not have happened if the marriage did not take place in Church or was not blessed later by a priest. The reason I'm trying to find this out is that information given by my Grandfather on this registration does not match information I have from other sources and I'm trying to determine if he was simply mistaken or lying. Thank you all again for your help. Elaine

Hello Elaine: I think you need to determine how long they had been living in Detroit and their religion as there are several possibilities as to why they chose to be married in Windsor. 1) Perhaps both had originally, or maybe just one of them, been living in Windsor with family there so preferred to have the marriage where most of the family lived; 2) A favourite clergyman or family member clergyman was to marry them; 3) Or they may have not met residency requirements as such a thing might have been necessary to obtain a marriage licence; 4) Possibly the nearest church of their religion was across the river in Windsor. Look at the 1900 Census of Detroit and the 1901 Census of Windsor to see where they had lived prior to the marriage. If you have seen the document on Ancestry, then you can print that out for yourself. Doreen ======== >From: "Elaine O'Neill" <elaineoneill1948@gmail.com> >Reply-To: ontario@rootsweb.com >To: ONTARIO@rootsweb.com >Subject: [ONTARIO] Windsor Marriage Record >Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:52:15 -0500 > >I found my grandparents marriage registration on Ancestry.com. They >lived in Detroit, but for some reason married in Windsor in 1907. I >have questions about some of the information given on the >registration. I would like to know if it's possible to order a copy of >the actual marriage license from either the Ontario Archives or the >main archives in Ottawa. I want to determine if they married in a >church or by a judge, and if it was in church, which one. Can someone >please point me in the right direction? Thank You! > > >Elaine O'. in Missouri > >*********** _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail. Now with better security, storage and features. www.newhotmail.ca?icid=WLHMENCA149