Marriage notice: Peter Gaillard to Henrietta C. Barker, Feb. 8, 1841
Book 1, Page 113 ·1841
Transcription
A small piece of aged, creased paper with a marriage notice handwritten in pencil. The hand is firm and round.
Married, on Thursday last, by the Right Rev. C. E. Gadsden, Mr. Peter Gaillard, of St John’s Parish to Miss Henrietta C. Barker, of this city.
The Courier — Feb. 8, 1841
AI Notes
A small piece of aged, much-creased paper with a marriage notice handwritten in pencil — evidently a hand-copy of the notice as it appeared in The Charleston Courier of 8 February 1841. The hand is firm and round, very likely the album-compiler’s. The notice records the marriage of Peter Gaillard of St. John’s Parish to Miss Henrietta C. Barker of Charleston, officiated by the Right Rev. C. E. Gadsden (then bishop of South Carolina). ‘Thursday last’ relative to the Feb. 8 publication date implies the wedding fell on Thursday, 4 February 1841.
The bride is Henrietta Catherine Barker (b. 1803), daughter of Joseph Sanford Barker × Henrietta Catherine Gaillard, and the sister of the compiler’s great-grandfather Samuel Gaillard Barker. The officiant Christopher Edwards Gadsden (1785–1852) was the fourth Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina, consecrated June 1840 — making this marriage one of his earliest as bishop. The pencilled hand-copy of the Charleston Courier notice is in the compiler’s later hand.