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Robert Martin Smith and Hilda Marguerite Raftus married on 15 March 1946 at Halifax, Halifax County

Registration: Year: 1946 number: 136798

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  136798

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Halifax

  City, Town or Village Halifax

  Street or Road St. Theresa's Glebe


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Smith, Robert Martin

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Artificer   4. Kind of industry or business R.C.A.

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 25   7. Religious denomination Church of the Christian Brotherhood

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin Scottish

10. Residence No. 6, A.M.E., R.C.A. York Ridoubt, Halifax

11. Place of birth Toronto, York County, Ontario

12. Name of father Robert Newton Smith

13. Maiden name of mother Florence Mable Diamond

14. Birthplace Father Ontario   Mother Ontario


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Raftus, Hilda Marguerite

16. Trade, profession of kind of work Clerk   17. Kind of industry or business R.C.N.

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 21   20. Religious denomination Roman Catholic

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin English

23. Residence 83 Willow St., Halifax

24. Place of birth Halifax, Halifax County

25. Name of father Howard Thomas Raftus

26. Maiden name of mother Francis Mary Settle

27. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage March 15 1946   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 81360


32. Signature of

Groom Robert Martin Smith

Bride   Hilda Marguerite Raftus

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Eldon Rogeson Critchley

Address   H.M.C.S. Kapuskasing

Name Ethel Raftus

Address   83 Willow St., Halifax

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

Officiating Clergyman Frederick Joseph Melanson

Address St. Theresa's Glebe, Halifax

Religious denomination Roman Catholic

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