Marriage certificate: Joseph J. Carlile & Elizabeth Kirkbride, 1839: Fallsington, Bucks Co, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by William Carlile. wkcarlile@pol.net USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. ____________________________________________________________ MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE OF JOSEPH CARLILE & ELIZABETH KIRKBRIDE (Original hand written in elaborate script on parchment) Whereas Joseph J. Carlile of the city of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania Son Of Abraham Carlile of same place and Mercy his wife (both deceased) and Elizabeth Kirkbride daughter of John Kirkbride of the county of Bucks and Elizabeth his wife having declared their intentions of Marriage with each other before a Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends held at Fallsington according to the good Order among them and having consent of Surviving Parents their said proposal of Marriage was Allowed by the said Meeting. Now These Are To Certify whom it may concern. That for the full accomplishment of their said intentions this Sixteeth day of the Fifth Month in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine they the said Joseph J. Carlile and Elizabeth Kirkbride appeared in a public meeting of said People held at Fallsington in the County and state of aforesaid and the said Joseph J. Carlile taking the said Elizabeth Kirkbride by the hand did on this solemn occasion openly declare That he took her the said Elizabeth Kirkbride unto his Wife promising with Divine Assistance to be unto her a loving and faithful Husband until Death should separate them and then in the same Assembly the said Elizabeth Kirkbride did in like manner declare that That she took him the said Joseph J. Carlile to be her Husband promising with Divine Assistance to be unto him a loving and faithful Wife Until Death should separate them. - And Moreover they the said Joseph J. Carlile and Elizabeth Kirkbride she according to the custom of Marriage assuming the name of her Husband did as a further confirmation thereof then and there to these Presents set their Hands. Joseph J. Carlile Elizabeth K. Carlile And We whose names are also hereunto subscribed being present at the Solemnization of the said Marriage and Subscription have as Witnefses theunto set our Hands the Day and Year above written. Joseph Satterthweite Daniel Holme William Satterthwaite Elizabeth R. Holme Henry Lipincott Sarah L. Allen John Brown W. W. Allen John Henly Aaron Ivins George B. Brown Hannah E. Ivins Henry B. Moon Sarah H. Ivins Mahlon Lovett Rachel H. Shaw Jane Lovett William B. Alexander Sarah S. Brown Sarah M. Alexander Moses Comfort Jane Moon Mercy Comfort James Moon Daneil L. Brown Jane C. Moon Susan J. Brown John Kirkbride A Howell Elizabeth Kirkbride Eliza H. Moon Abm. Carlile Mahlon Moon Ann Carlile Hannah W. Brown J. Cowperthwait Jane C. Comfort Thomas S. Kirkbride All Eliza. Brown Mahlon L. Kirkbride Joseph G. Trotter Phebe Ann " David Heston Mary M. " Anna Heston Rachael L. " Mary Cadwallader Sam E. Spencer John Mills Rebecca Spencer Cyrus Cadwallader Mahlon Kirkbride Ann W. Jenks Mary " John D. Richardson Ann " Emily Fell Mary W. Kirkbride Mahlon Kirkbride Jun.