Registration: Year: 1945 number: 134737
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA
MARRIAGE REGISTER
REGISTERED No. 134737
PLACE OF MARRIAGE County of Cape Breton in City or Town New Waterford
BRIDEGROOM
1. PRINT name in full Hughes, Earl
2. Trade, profession of kind of work Blacksmith Kind of industry or business General
3. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Widower 4. Age 37
5. Religious denomination United Church of Canada 6. Racial origin Welsh
7. Residence 464 Pellet Ave., New Waterford
8. Place of birth Sydney, Cape Breton
9. Name of father George Pulman Hughes
10. Place of birth of father Prince Edward Island
11. Maiden name of mother Maria Pound
BRIDE
13. PRINT name in full Ferguson, Elizabeth
14. Trade, profession of kind of work Housekeeper Kind of industry or business
15. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster 16. Age 33
17. Religious denomination United Church of Canada 18. Racial origin Scotch
19. Residence Pellet Ave., New Waterford
20. Place of birth Thorburn, Pictou Co.
21. Name of father James Ferguson
22. Place of birth of father Thorburn
23. Maiden name of mother Katie Bell BEaton
25. When married 6 day of October 1945
26. Place of marriage Smith Street Manse New Waterford, Cape Breton County
27. By license or banns 79459
28. Signature of
Groom Earl Hughes
Bride Elizabeth Ferguson
29. Signatures of Witnesses
Name Marguerite Ferguson
Address New Waterford
Name Albert Beaton
Address New Waterford
I certify the above stated particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Officiating Clergyman M.A. MacMillan
Address New Waterford
Religious denomination United Church of Canada
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