Registration: Year: 1946 number: 137156
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA
MARRIAGE REGISTER
Register No. 137156
PLACE OF MARRIAGE County of Halifax
City, Town or Village Halifax
Street or Road 47 London St.
BRIDEGROOM
2. PRINT name in full Downie, John Lamont
3. Trade, profession of kind of work Master Mariner 4. Kind of industry or business Merchant Service
5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor 6. Age 32 7. Religious denomination Presbyterian
8. Citizenship British 9. Racial origin Scottish
10. Residence 199 Copland Rd., Glasgow, P.W.I.
11. Place of birth Glasgow, Scotland
12. Name of father James Downie
13. Maiden name of mother Marian Lamont
14. Birthplace Father Tiree, Scotland Mother Tiree, Scotland
BRIDE
15. PRINT name in full Hurum, Margit Emilie
16. Trade, profession of kind of work Secretary 17. Kind of industry or business British Government
18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster 19. Age 29 20. Religious denomination Lutheran
21. Citizenship Canadian 22. Racial origin Norwegian
23. Residence 24 Jane St., New York, N.Y.
24. Place of birth Holden, Alberta
25. Name of father Harald Hurum
26. Maiden name of mother Ester Graham
27. Birthplace Father Norway Mother Sweden
28. Date of marriage April 9 1946 29. By license or banns License 30. License number 81704
32. Signature of
Groom John Lamont Downie
Bride Margit Emilie Hurum
33. Signatures of Witnesses
Name Laurence Ker Mitchell
Address 27 Green Street, Strathaven, Lanark., Scotland
Name Ann F.G. Faraday
Address 47 London St., Halifax
I certify the above stated particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Officiating Clergyman Frank Lawson
Address 46 Francklyn St., Halifax
Religious denomination Presbyterian
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