Adam Warnock

Adam and Stephanie were married by Rev. Frederick W. Bindemann in the year 1850 at 'Greenbush', Waterloo. When Rev. Bindemann submitted the list of marriages to the Wellington District Registrar, he showed only the year, January 1, 1850 to January 1, 1851. The best we may say is that Adam and Stephanie were married in 1850. Greenbush was Bindemann's residence and this is on King Street in present day Kitchener where the Grand River Hospital now stands.

The Wellington District marriage register is only to be found at the Wellington County Museum in Fergus. It has been transcribed. See The Marriage Registers of Upper Canada / Canada West, Wellington district, Vol. 1, part 1, 1840-1852, Compiled by Dan Walker & Fawne Stratford-Devai, Global Heritage Press, 2000, page 102

Adam and Stephanie's entry simply reads:

Adam Warnock, Merchant of Galt, to 'Isephany' Hespeler, of Preston. By licence. Rev. Bindemann.
Wit. Frederick Guggisberg of Waterloo and James Warnock of Dumfries

That Stephanie's name is apparently mispelled may be anything from a handwriting issue of either Rev. Bindemann or the recording clerk, or simply a transcription issue. There is another possiblity, however. It has been said (source lost) that Anna Barbara Wick Hespeler had, on her mother's side, ancestry of Hungarian nobility. 'Isephany' may, at some level, be an approximation of this - which does nothing to assist in finding a birth record for her.