Registration: Year: 1945 number: 130560
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA
MARRIAGE REGISTER
REGISTERED No. 130560
PLACE OF MARRIAGE County of Halifax in City or Town Halifax
BRIDEGROOM
1. PRINT name in full Potter, Albert Howard
2. Trade, profession of kind of work Navy Kind of industry or business Defense Chief
3. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor 4. Age 27
5. Religious denomination United Church of Canada 6. Racial origin English
7. Residence Digby
8. Place of birth Craigmyle, Alberta
9. Name of father Albert Potter
10. Place of birth of father Toronto Ontario
11. Maiden name of mother Etta A Howard
12. Can bridegroom read? Yes Write? Yes
BRIDE
13. PRINT name in full McDonald, Dorothy Olive
14. Trade, profession of kind of work Clerk Kind of industry or business Transportation
15. Spinster Widow or Divorced Divorced 16. Age 31
17. Religious denomination United Church of Canada 18. Racial origin English
19. Residence Halifax NS
20. Place of birth Oxford
21. Name of father Harry M Smith
22. Place of birth of father Parrsboro
23. Maiden name of mother Florence Forbes
24. Can bride read? Yes Write? Yes
25. When married 17 day of March 1945
26. Place of marriage 25 Vernon St Halifax, Halifax County
27. By license or banns 76150
28. Signature of
Groom Albert Howard Potter
Bride Dorothy Olive McDonald
29. Signatures of Witnesses
Name M. E. Strang
Address Halifax NS
Name J.E. Strang
Address Halifax NS
I certify the above stated particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Officiating Clergyman J. MacKeigan
Address Halifax NS
Religious denomination United Church of Canada
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