Oscar F. Chamberlin

MS248 reel 4, Vol. 22, page 147
Talbot District Marriage Register

Extracted from a list of marriages solemnized by Rev. J. Gundry for the year 1854.

Oscar F. Chamberlin and Eliza Smith, both residing Burford, Oxford Co. Witnesses John Shephard and Martha Bray. By License.

Rev. Joseph Gundry was a Baptist minister. Certainly, the 1851 census at Brantford records the Smith sisters as being Baptists.

In May of 1849, the old Talbot District ceased to exist and most of the area covered became the new Norfolk County. The clerk of what became Norfolk County continued to enter marriages in the old Talbot District register and this is what we see for the recording of the marriage of Oscar and Eliza.

The above registration does not tell us where in Norfolk County the marriage was performed. It does not tell the ages of the couple, though we have sufficient census guidance for this so far as Eliza is concerned. To date, the above record is the only direct reference we have of Oscar F. Chamberlin. The only other guidance found so far is the marriage of Eliza's daughter Eva, which names her father as Oscar Chamberlin.