Jennet Thompson

Mrge reg. 012570-85 Beverly Twp., Wentworth Co.
Richard Paterson, 28, bachelor, farmer, Presbyterian. Born and residing Beverly. Parents John and Agnes Paterson.
Jennett Thompson, 17, spinster, Baptist. Born and residing Beverly. Parents William and Elizabeth Thompson.
Witnesses James Mills and William Shaver, both of Beverly.
On June 10th, 1885, at Beverly, by Rev. George Chittenden.

Ritchie appears as Richard on his marriage registration. This may or may not be correct. Certainly, we find him in later years as Ritchie and he appears on his death registration as Ritchie and the same appears on his gravestone at Kirkwall Presbyterian Cemetery. Frequently, however, he appears as Richard on census information.

We do not have much information for Rev. George Chittenden, but he was a Baptist minister. According to a history of the Mountsberg and Westover Baptist churches, he entered the ministry in the early 1880s. He may have been at the Westover church which wasn't far from Kirkwall.