James Dryden

Mrge reg. North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Co.
James Dryden, 25, bachelor, mechanic, Canada Presbyterian. Born Galt, residing Ayr. Parents Thomas and Agnes Dryden.
Hannah Pickett, 19, spinster, Methodist. Born and residing Ayr. Parents James and Susan Pickett.
Witnesses John Dryden and Agnes McRae, both of North Dumfries.
On Oct 5th, 1871, at Ayr, by Benj. Clement.

Benjamin Clement was a Wesleyan Methodist minister. The available information has him in North Dumfries in 1871. He died in 1914 and is buried in Section B of Maitland Cemetery in Goderich. It isn't at all clear to which church he was ministering when he was in North Dumfries.