Marriage Allegation

Marriage Allegation of Fitzwilliam Brougham Cartwright, of Leyland Manor, Leath, to Emmeline Grace Porter, of Wortham Hall, Allerdale below Derwent

Dated 15th May 1763

On which day appeared Personally Fitzwilliam Cartwright of the Parish of Leyland in the County of Leath, gentleman -- and Thomas Porter of the Parish of Wortham in the County of Allerdale below Derwent, gentleman and did jointly and for themselves depose as follows to wit the aforesaid Fitzwilliam Cartwright for himself deposed that he is of the Age of Twenty four years and upward and a Batchelor and that he doth intend to intermarry with Emmeline Grace Porter of the Parish of Wortham in the County of Allerdale below Derwent aforesaid Spinster a Minor of the Age of Twenty Years and upwards and under the Age of One and Twenty Years by and with the Consent of Thomas Porter Father lawfully chosen and appointed and that he knoweth of no lawful Let or impediment by reason of any Precontract, Consanguinity, Affinity, or any other lawful means whatsoever to hinder the said intended Marriage of the truth of which he made oath and prayed a Licence for them to solemnize the said Marriage in the Parish Church of Wortham in the County of Allerdale below Derwent or Leyland in the County of Leath And he the said Thomas Porter for himself deposed that she the said Emmeline Porter Spinster the Minor aforesaid to the best of his Knowledge and that he is her Father and appointed by virtue of an Instrument under hand and seal and hereunto signed and as such that he is consenting to the above intended Marriage.

Fitzwilliam Cartwright

Thomas Porter