Huron District Marriage Register of Upper Canada, 1841-1870 (includes Baptisms and Burials)

By Dan Walker & Fawne Stratford-Devai

The Huron District was created in 1838 and proclaimed in November of 1841 once the court house and jail were built in the District town of Goderich. Marriage returns for Perth County, Bruce County and western Grey County and McKillop & Williams Townships were returned to the Clerk of the Peace in the District Town of Woodstock.

Includes Baptism, Marriage & Burial returns from clergy for the Huron District and the United Counties of Bruce and Huron

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Townships included in the Huron District: Arran, Brant, Bruce, Carrick, Culross, Elderslie, Greenock Huron, Kincardine, Kinloss and Saugeen (all part of Bruce County), Ashfield, Biddulph, Colborne, Goderich, Grey, Hay, Howick, Hullet, McGillivrary, McKillop, Morris, Stanley, Stephen, Tuckersmith, Turnberry, Usborne, and Wawanosh (all part of Huron County), Blanshard, Downie, Easthope North, Easthope South, Ellice, Elma, Fullerton, Gore of Downie, Hibbert, Logan, Mornington and Wallace (all part of Perth County) and Williams Township which is part of Middlesex County.

Circuit rider ministers who were required to report marriages in the register of the District where they lived rather than the District where the marriage took place. Marriages not found in the Huron District Register may be recorded in bordering districts of Brock, Wellington, London and Western Districts. In one case a Bible Christian Minister from the Newcastle District moves to the Huron District halfway through a year. This clergy’s first marriage return to the Huron District Clerk includes marriages performed in the Newcastle District for the first part of the year before he moved to Huron!

All marriages performed before the Huron District was proclaimed in 1841 were sent to the Clerk of the Peace for the London District and can be found in the London District Marriage Register, Part 1.

Check bordering Districts:  Complete District Marriage Register Series booklist  When searching for marriages recorded in Marriage Registers keep in mind that many returns were submitted by ministers who were circuit riders who often performed marriages at great distance from their home bases. Circuit riders reported marriages in the register of the District where they lived which was not necessarily in the same District where the marriage took place. 

Related article: District Marriage Registers of Upper Canada (Ontario) 1786-1870 - What are they and why are they important?

Details:

270 Pages
8.5" X 11" (coil-bound edition)
Maps
Index
Originally self-published by compiler, Toronto, 1995
This revised and updated edition with new maps and introduction published by Global Heritage Press, Milton, 2000 
ISBN 978-1-894571-04-3