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Basil Wallace Spears and Shirley May Leben married on 5 May 1946 at Truro, Colchester County

Registration: Year: 1946 number: 137596

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  137596

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Colchester

  City, Town or Village Truro

  Street or Road St. John's Church


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Spears, Basil Wallace

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Operator   4. Kind of industry or business Theatre

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 25   7. Religious denomination Anglican, Church of England

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin English

10. Residence Port Hood, Inverness County

11. Place of birth Port Hood, Inverness County

12. Name of father Isaac Spears

13. Maiden name of mother Blanche Watts

14. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Leben, Shirley May

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

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 19   20. Religious denomination Anglican, Church of England

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin English

23. Residence Masstown, Colchester County

24. Place of birth Masstown, Col. County

25. Name of father Leo John Leben

26. Maiden name of mother Winifred May Smith

27. Birthplace Father England   Mother England


28. Date of marriage May 5 1946   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 82040


32. Signature of

Groom Basil Wallace Spears

Bride   Shirley May Leben

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Gwendolyn V. Leben

Address   Masstown

Name Edison Spears

Address   Halifax

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

Officiating Clergyman G.R. Thompson

Address Truro

Religious denomination Church of England

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