Marriage of Joseph Kirkbride to Mary Yardley, 1704: Bucks County PA File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Robert Derber. bderber@firstvisionmedia.com USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Falls Records, Marriage Certificates, pp. 32-3. Joseph Kirkbride to Mary Yardley, 1704 Whereas Joseph Kirkbride of the Falls Township in ye County of bucks and Province of Pensilvania Yeoman & Mary Yardley of ye township of makefield in the County & Province arforesd Widdow having intentions of takeing Each other in marriage Did publish ye same before Severall publick meetings of ye People of God Called Quakers ~~~~~~~ Now these are to Certifie all whome it may Concern yt after deliberate Consideration and Consent of The Said meetings they appearing Clear of all others & having likewise consent of Relations and parties Concerned upon ye Seventeenth Day of ye Eleventh month in ye year one Thousand seven Hundred & four they ye sd Joseph Kirkbride & Mary Yardley appearing in a publick and Solemn assembly of ye aforesaid People mett together at ye usual meeting house in ye falls township aforesaid and then and there ye Said Joseph Kirkbride takeing ye Sd Mary Yardley by ye hand did openly Declare yt hee took her to be his wife & also did promise to be unto her a faithfull and Loving husband untill death Separate and in Like manner ye sd Mary Yardley did then and their openly declare yt Whee did take ye Said Joseph Kirkbride to be her husband and did likewise promise to be unto him a Loving & faithful wife until death Separates moreover ye sd Joseph Kirkbride and Mary Yardley according to ye Custom of Marriage assuming her husbands name for a further Confirmation thereof at ye aforesaid time and place to these presents Set Their hands and wee whose names are hereunder Subscribed being present amongst others at ye Solemnization of ye said marriage & subscription as witnesses thereunto have Set our hands ye day and year above written ~~~~~ Mary Watson Samll Jennings Joseph Kirkbride Elen Burges Wm Biles Mary Kirkbride Abigal Sidel Rachel Hough Rachel Baker John Sirket Ruith Stacy James Paxton Rebeckah Stacy Joshua Hoops Mathew Kirkbride Ann Snowden Samll Beaks Tho Kirkbride Jane Moon Edmond Lovett Jean Kirkbride Isaac Moon Samll Burges Abel Janney Tho Watson Nehemiah Blackshaw Tho Yardley Mahlon Stacy Tho Duell Joseph Kirkbride Junr Richard Hough Samll Baker Tobias Dymcock Phebe Kirkbride Fraces Hague John Brock Martha Kirkbride Enoch Pearson Wm Beaks ~~~~~ Henry Margerum Wm Paxton Nathan Slaire John Palmer Wm Atkinson John Hutchinson