Marriage Certificate
MARRIAGES solemnized in the Parish of St Giles in the Fields in the County
of Middlesex, in the Year 1818
William Price,
Bachelor,
of the Parish of St Botolph Aldgate, City of London |
and
Emma Belfour of this Parish,
Spinster |
were married in this Church by Licence |
this twenty-seventh Day of February in the Year
One Thousand Eight Hundred and eighteen |
By me Ralph Price, offg Minister |
This marriage was solemnized between us, |
William Price |
Emma Belfour |
In the Presence of |
Edmd Belfour
Harriott Wright |
Henry Price Hy Belfour |
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The first witness, Edmund Belfour, was
Emma's brother, her father having died in 1811. The second witness may
be a relation on their mother's side of the family, her maiden name was
Wright.
Was the officiating minister a relative of
William Price, or is the surname a co-incidence?
The following announcement appeared in
The Times on Saturday 28th February 1818:
MARRIED
on Friday, the 27th inst. at St Giles'-in-the-Fields, by the Rev. Ralph
Price, rector of Lyminge, Kent,
William Price, of the Minories, to Emma, daughter of the late Okey
Belfour, of Lincoln's-inn-fields.