Alex McKenzie

GS2987 First Church (Presbyterian) Galt

extracted from First Church records. (By this time, the church is keeping records on the same form as is submitted to the county.)

Alex McKenzie, 28, born and residing Beverly (township). Parents Donald McKenzie and Cat. McPherson.
Isabella McKenzie, 23, born and residing Dumfries (township). Parents Wm. McKenzie and Christ. Stewart.
Witness Malcolm McNaughton, Dumfries.
On 15th April 1863.

As with county marriages, this does not locate the place of marriage, but it was probably in North Dumfries at the home of the bride's parents. We have some added confirmation of this from an extract of Dumfries Reformer marriage notices (the work of Rosemary Ambrose via the Waterloo Region branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society and covers the years of 1860-1865). The edition of the paper was 29 April, 1863, and the notice dates the marriage to April 22 (considering the church and county records, this will be a compositor's error). The one difficulty with the newspaper notice is that it refers to Isabella's family as being of Dumfries. By 1863, Dumfries Township had long been divided into North and South, but considering that census information places the family in North Dumfries, this is probably where the marriage was held. (Isabella is with her parents in North Dumfries at the time of the 1851 census; she is age 21 and shown in the household of John Scrimger of North Dumfries at the time of the 1861 census. She was probably working as a domestic.

This marriage also appears on MS248 reel 16, Vol. 76, page 10
Waterloo County Marriage Register

Extracted from a list of marriages solemnized by Robert Achison of the United Presbyterian Church at Galt for the year ending 31st December, 1863.

The information is essentially the same as in the church record, the one difference being that the name of the witness, Malcolm McNaughton, is written more legibly and considering that Malcolm McNaughton was Isabella's brother-in-law it's entirely reasonable.

Beyond that, were Alex McKenzie, son of Donald, and Isabella McKenzie, daughter of William, cousins? We have no evidence that this was so.