A Collection of Lanark County, Ontario Marriage Records 1817-1967

By Peter E. Anderson

Peter Andersen extracted and recorded marriage records from the church registers of a long list of Lanark County churches of various faiths. He also compiled lists of Strays -- marriages of Lanark County natives who married outside of the county, or in other churches. Extracts of marriage notifications published in the Lanark Observer newspaper (Lanark Village) have been included in this collection.

More than 80,000 names
This collection includes more than 80,000 individual names of brides, grooms, and parents of the bride and groom involving approximately 14,000 marriages between 1817 and 1967.

Information included in each record (some exceptions):

• Name of the bride
• Name of the groom
• Date of the marriage
• Names of the mother and father of the bride including the maiden surname of the mother
• Names of the mother and father of the groom including the maiden surname of the mother
• Name and location of the church where the marriage was recorded
• A few entries include comments such as 'widow of (named person)'; widower of (named person)'", etc

List of Sources of the marriage records included in this collection:

• Almonte - Almonte United Church (Presbyterian Congregation) 1912-1919
• Almonte - Almonte United Church - Carleton Place Wesleyan Methodist Circuit 1858-1890
• Almonte - Almonte United Church / St. Andrew's Church 1896-1911
• Almonte - St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church 1898-1926
• Almonte - St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church - Ramsay Church 1833-1902
• Almonte - Almonte Methodist Circuit (cont'd as) Trinity United Church 1918-1943
• Almonte - St. John's United Church 1859-1901
• Almonte - United (Presbyterian) Congregations 1919-1925
• Appleton - Carleton Place and Appleton Methodist Circuit 1898-1912
• Ashton - Ashton Presbyterian Church 1896-1911
• Beckwith - Beckwith, Drummond & Montague Methodist Circuit 1896-1921
• Bethany - Bethany United Church 1925-1937
• Bathurst - Calvin Presbyterian Church 1899-1958
• Carleton Place - St. Mary's 1884-1911
• Carleton Place - Carleton Place and Appleton Methodist Circuit 1898-1912
• Carleton Place - Zion Presbyterian Church 1896-1921
• Carleton Place - Carleton Place Methodist Church 1910-1921
• Carleton Place - St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church 1910-1921
• Carleton Place - Carleton Place Wesleyan Methodist Circuit - Almonte United Church 1858-1890
• Carleton Place - Civil Registration Marriages 1878-1894
• Clayton - Clayton United Church (Watson's Corners, Poland ,Levant ,Dalhousie , & Flower Station) 1896 - 1911
• Clayton - Clayton Methodist Circuit 1896 - 1899
• Clayton - Clayton and Lanark Methodist Circuit 1918-1931
• Dalhousie - St. James' Presbyterian 1909-1910
• Dalhousie - Dalhousie - Playfair United Church 1932-1963
• Darling Township - Middleville & Darling Presbyterian 1897-1919
• Drummond - Beckwith, Drummond & Montague Methodist Circuit 1896-1921
• Ferguson's Falls - Parish of Sacred Heart of Jesus including Missions of Ferguson's
• Falls and MacDonald's Corners 1907-1910
• Franktown - St. Paul's Presbyterian 1897-1921
• Lanark - Lanark Methodist Church 1896-1926
• Lanark - Clayton and Lanark Methodist Circuit 1918-1931
• "Lanark Observer" - Marriages reported in the Lanark Observer newspaper from August 1850 to March 1853
• MacDonald's Corners - Knox Presbyterian Church 1847-1951
• MacDonald's Corners - Parish of Sacred Heart of Jesus including Missions of Ferguson's Falls and MacDonald's Corners 1907-1910
• Middleville - Middleville & Rosetta Congregational Churches 1858-1871
• Middleville - St. Paul's Presbyterian 1859-1896
• Middleville - Middleville Congregational Church 1896-1925
• Middleville - Middleville & Darling Presbyterian 1897-1919
• Middleville - Middleville United Church 1919-1943
• Montague - Beckwith, Drummond & Montague Methodist Circuit 1896-1921
• Perth - St. John Baptist Church 1823-1900
• Perth - St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church 1830-1887
• Perth - Asbury Methodist Church 1896-1949
• Perth - Perth Free Church Presbyterian Congregation 1858-1895
• Perth - Knox Presbyterian 1896-1967
• Perth - Perth Presbyterian Church 1817-1857
• Perth - St. Paul's United Church 1917-1935
• Perth - Perth Wesleyan Methodist Church 1858-1896
• Playfair - Dalhousie-Playfair United Church 1932-1963
• Ramsay - St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church - Ramsay Church 1833-1902
• Rosetta - Middleville & Rosetta Congregational Churches 1858-1871
• Smith's Falls - St. Francis de Sales 1848-1911
• Stanleyville - St. Bridget's Roman R.C. Church 1889-1910
• Watson's Corner's - Watson's Corner's Presbyterian Church 1907-1926
• Strays - Marriages of Lanark County people that took place at other churches or geographic locations 1881-1953 (most between 1900-1930)
  

700 pages of marriage records are included in a single searchable digital file that is bookmarked by the name of the source and date range of records contained within each section. (e.g. Perth Presbyterian Church 1817-1857). Being able to search through all 41 sets of records with a single search is especially helpful when you are not sure of where, when, or in which church that a marriage was solemnized. 

Using the Collection:
The collection is organized in a continuous run of pages beginning with a "title page" that lists the name of the church/source from which the records were extracted. The marriage extracts for that church follow its title page. The next church's title page appears after the final page of marriages from the previous church's records, followed by that church's marriages, and so on. Convenient hot-linked bookmarks are listed on the left hand side of the page should you choose to browse the records of a specific church/es.

Searchable by entering a surname, given name, or word/s in the search box at the top of the screen. When you find a record that is of interest, scroll up the page to locate the name/title page of the church or source from which the record was transcribed.

This collection includes all of Mr. Andersen's typewritten pages that make up this collection. We scanned his manually typed pages as originally prepared. We have not altered or edited the work.  The original documents were intended for Anderson's personal use so several pages include hand written corrections and changes by Mr. Andersen. We've left those pages as we found them.

Details

703 Pages
Searchable PDF format digital file
Pdf download version can be used on any device that can open a PDF file
Pages can be printed at high resolution.
Published by Global Heritage Press, Milton, 2015
ISBN 978-1-77240-014-4 (digitial edition)