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First Presbyterian Church, Perth, Ontario: Marriages by Rev. William Bell, 1817-1857

First Presbyterian Church, Perth, Ontario: Marriages by Rev. William Bell, 1817-1857 · Perth, Lanark, Ontario, Canada

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Parish / congregation
First Presbyterian Church, Perth
Denomination
Presbyterian
Place
Perth, Lanark, Ontario, Canada
Register type
marriage
Years covered
1817-1857
Provider
other
Form accessed
transcript
freepages.rootsweb.com ↗ retrieved 2026-09-01 Added manually

Volunteer transcription of the marriage register kept by Rev. William Bell, first Presbyterian minister at Perth. Presented as a three-page index in which every marriage is listed twice, once under each party, with columns Name / Married / Spouse / Witness / Witness. The transcriber is not named on the page and no attribution to a printed edition is claimed there. The live rootsweb host returns HTTP 403 to all non-browser clients; consulted via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. A printed edition of the same register exists: Marriages and Baptisms, First Presbyterian Church, Perth, 1817-1857, Rev. William Bell, J.R.E. Miller, 1987, ISBN 1-55034-019. The register's baptisms are NOT part of this online transcription.

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First Presbyterian Church, Perth, Ontario: Marriages by Rev. William Bell, 1817-1857 Entry Ferguson, Stephen · Date 02-24-1829 Secondary

First Presbyterian Church, Perth, Ontario: Marriages by Rev. William Bell, 1817-1857 · Perth, Lanark, Ontario, Canada

For “Married” 25 FEB 1829 of Stephen Bromley Jarvis Ferguson & Jane Richardson

"Ferguson, Stephen | 02-24-1829 | Richardson, Jane | | "

The row's cell values quoted in the table's own column order: Name, Married, Spouse, Witness, Witness — both witness cells are empty, as they are for every pre-1832 entry in this index. Page header reads "First Presbyterian Church" / "Perth, Ontario, Canada" / "Marriages" / "By Rev. William Bell". The date format across the index is unambiguously MM-DD-YYYY (other rows carry day values of 31), so this row reads 24 February 1829 — ONE DAY EARLIER than the bride-side row and than the date the tree holds. Cited so the discrepancy is on the record; the tree's date was not altered.

First Presbyterian Church, Perth, Ontario: Marriages by Rev. William Bell, 1817-1857 Entry Richardson, Jane · Date 02-25-1829 Secondary

First Presbyterian Church, Perth, Ontario: Marriages by Rev. William Bell, 1817-1857 · Perth, Lanark, Ontario, Canada

For “Married” 25 FEB 1829 of Stephen Bromley Jarvis Ferguson & Jane Richardson

"Richardson, Jane | 02-25-1829 | Ferguson, Stephen | | "

The same marriage as indexed under the bride, quoted in the table's own column order. This row gives 25 February 1829, which is the date the tree already holds, and is the reason that date is left unchanged. Page 3 is archived only on the legacy freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com host; the current rootsweb host has no snapshot of it.