Marriage Information:

John married Susan Ann Carpenter, daughter of Samuel Rogers Carpenter of Carn Brea and Ann ("Nanny") Boundey, on 1 Apr 1870 in Illogan, Cornwall. (Susan Ann Carpenter was born in 1844 in Carn Brea, Illogan, Cornwall, christened 15 Jul 1844 in Redruth, Cornwall and buried on 25 Aug 1923 in Redruth, Cornwall, aged 78 years.)

  Marriage Notes:

Appeared personally Susan Carpenter of the parish of Illogan in the county of Cornwall, a dress maker, a spinster, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, and prayed a Licence for the solemnization of Matrimony, in the parish church of Illogan in the county of Cornwall, between her and John Best of the parish of Illogan, bachelor, miner, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, and made Oath that she believeth that there is no impediment of kindred or alliance, or of any other lawful cause, nor any Suit commenced in any Ecclesiastical Court, to bar or hinder the proceeding of the said Matrimony according to the tenor of such Licence....

Licence granted 29th day of March, 1870.