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Melvin Judge MacCarthy and Dorothy Jane Young married on 27 February 1946 at Tangier, Halifax County

Registration: Year: 1946 number: 136467

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  136467

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Halifax

  City, Town or Village Tangier

  Street or Road


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full MacCarthy, Melvin Judge

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Labourer   4. Kind of industry or business Trucking

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 25   7. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin Scottish

10. Residence Lochaber Mines

11. Place of birth Lochaber Mines

12. Name of father John Parker MacCarthy

13. Maiden name of mother Anna MacDaniel

14. Birthplace Father Halifax County   Mother Guysborough County


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Young, Dorothy Jane

16. Trade, profession of kind of work Stenographer   17. Kind of industry or business

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 19   20. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin English

23. Residence 57 Summit Street, Halifax

24. Place of birth Halifax

25. Name of father Arthur Henry Young

26. Maiden name of mother Ella Louise Zwicker

27. Birthplace Father Lunenburg   Mother Lunenburg


28. Date of marriage February 27 1946   29. By license or banns License 30. License number


32. Signature of

Groom Melvin Judge MacCarthy

Bride   Dorothy Jane Young

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Alfred MacCarthy

Address   Lochaber Mines

Name Viola MacCarthy

Address   Lochaber Mines

I certify the above stated particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Officiating Clergyman G. S. Tanton

Address The Rectory, Tangier

Religious denomination Church of England (in Canada)

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