Pencilled transcript of a marriage notice: Sanford N. Barker and Christiana Constantia Porcher

A small piece of lined paper (an index-card or note-card) bearing a pencilled transcript in cursive of a newspaper marriage notice. The transcript records the marriage of Mr. Sanford N. Barker to Miss Christiana Constantia, second daughter of the late Philip Porcher, at South Mulberry, St. John’s Berkeley. The source citation ‘News & Courier / Wed. Apl. 29, 1835’ is written below in pencil. (The News & Courier was not formed until 1873 — this is a later transcript copying an earlier 1835 paper, or the citation is the date copied from the original notice.)

The historical record consistently names the bride as Christiana Constantia Broughton — daughter of Philip Porcher Broughton — and her husband as Sandford William Barker, who acquired South Mulberry Plantation in Berkeley County through this 1835 marriage. The pencilled transcript may abbreviate “Broughton” or copy a Porcher-Broughton family name; “Philip Porcher” here may be the Philip Porcher Broughton common in St. John’s Berkeley families.