Jane Smith

According to Norma Huber, Waterloo, 1886, in her Marriages of Galt and Area Inhabitants With Some Strays, Harvey Wait and Jane Smith were married on November 29, 1837, and sources this to microfilm of First Church, Galt, marriages.

Dan Walker & Fawne Stratford-Devai, in their work The Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/Canada West, Vol. 9, Part 2, Wellington District, 2000, Global Heritage Press, page 161, extract the information for this marriage from microfilm identified as LCM 30 and 31 as found in the United Church of Canada Archives.

(The placing by the authors of this publication of First Church's marriage records from this era in the Wellington District is a bit odd. First Church was in Galt, a town in Dumfries Township in the Gore District. Galt is now a part of Cambridge, Ontario, the northern parts of which do in fact sit in what was at one time the Wellington District. First Church still exists.)

They show the marriage of 'Hervey' Wait to Jane Smith, both of Dumfries, on November 29, 1837, and name the witnesses as Smyth Wait and Adam Smith. 'Smyth' Wait will be Smith Wait, Harvey's brother. (An examination of the handwriting of Smith Wait's name on the marriage registration as it appears on microfilm GS2987 shows it to indeed have been written as Smith Wait. The reel GS2987 is to be found at the Archives of Ontario. This is not as well microfilmed as the United Church reel LCM-30. )

The one useful piece of information that does appear on the original First Church page and which is to be seen on GS2987 is that the marriage was performed in Dumfries after the publication of banns. This still doesn't tell us the exact location of the marriage, but it was probably at a family farm in Dumfries Township. Also, the date of the marriage as transcribed, 29 November, 1837, is almost certainly correct, though the handwriting for the month is a smeared mess.