William Miller & Jane Hardy Marriage Location

Recently, Newspapers.com has added some Owen Sound papers to their collection and it has been very beneficial as it is has allowed me to find the full text articles to some things where I have previously only had the transcription. But a side benefit is that I have been able to find some other articles through searches that I would haven't likely been able to find otherwise.

One such example is an obituary of Jane Hardy from the Owen Sound Sun, 24 April 1917:

The article implies that she and William Miller were married in Meadowvale about 1856. I had previously found their marriage reistration record showing a date of 22 June 1857 in Wellington County. The marriage was performed by Matthew S. Grey.

So, the date of the marriage is confirmed, but the question is where did the marrige take place? The marriage register doesn't give a definite place of marriage, but can a news article written sixty years after the fact (and after both the husband and wife are deceased) be trusted to give accurate information?

The next step is to see if there are additional church records that might give some indication as to the location

Arthur Miller (1876-1876)

A distant cousin who is also researching the Miller family pointed out to me that William Miller and Jane Hardy had another son named Arthur Miller whom I was not aware of previously. He was born 25 January 1876 and died 29 January 1876.

I found his birth and death information online [D06473, D06474]:



According to the death registration, Arthur was born prematurely. I had a look at the Greenwood Cemetery burial list and there is an Arthur Miller listed with matching birth and death dates [D01131].

I went to Greenwood Cemetery and had a look for the stone but I couldn't find anything there. So likely the stone is gone or there never was one there.

Sources:
[D01131] "Owen Sound Greenwood Cemetery Interments" (typescript, 2005), p. 222. Rec. Date: 6 May 2018. ID: D01131. Cit. Date: 28 Jun 2019.

[D06473] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, MS929; Series: 23: 579, 7501, 18; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births," (28 Jun 2019). Rec. Date: 21 Apr 2017. Cit. Date: 28 Jun 2019.

[D06474] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935; Reel: 12: 751, 4015, 6; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (28 Jun 2019). Rec. Date: 3 Sep 2017. Cit. Date: 28 Jun 2019.

X00153 Solved!

I managed to come across the marriage record for William Miller and Jane Hardy, June 22 1857.



Some interesting findings:
* It's not where I would have expected the marriage to be. It's in Wellington, Prince Edward County. I haven't found any connections to Prince Edward County with either the Miller or Hardy families.
* William's place of birth is listed as the United States, which may be a lead, although other sources list his place of birth as Upper Canada.
* This confirms the names of both sets of parents, as expected. One thing to note is that this is only the second record that I have seen that lists William's mother as Margaret. Only the first name is given unfortunately, because I have only found one record so far that lists Margaret's last name, and I have my doubts about it (see X00055)

Update: I had another look at the record. FamilySearch has the location indexed as Wellington, Hillier, Prince Edward County. But I think this is a mistake and the location is actually Wellington County. Most of the other names on the page live in towns in Wellington county and it would make far more sense for the two to have been married in Wellington County, rather than Wellington, Prince Edward County