Reference:

Gabriel Morgan, 21, labourer, bachelor, born Alphenton [sic], Victoria, 21 islington Street, Collingwood; father, John Morgan, mason; mother Elizabeth Morgan, Bluett [sic]; married 25 July 1883 at Moor Street Fitzroy Ellen Edith Brown, assistant, 16, spinster, born Collingwood, Victoria, 16 islington Street, Collingwood; father, William Brown, shoemaker; mother, Ellen Brown, Hurley. Witnesses: Mrs Catherine Bryce, Harold William Bryce. Married with the written consent of Ellen Vontom, mother of the bride. Married by Nathaniel Kinsman.

Nathaniel Kinsman, 'champion heavy-weight promoter of matrimonial alliances' in Collingwood, was well known for the amount of marriages he performed, estimated at around 10,000 by the time of his death in 1898.