Registration: Year: 1946 number: 140508
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA
MARRIAGE REGISTER
Register No. 140508
PLACE OF MARRIAGE County of Halifax
City, Town or Village Halifax
Street or Road
BRIDEGROOM
2. PRINT name in full Pettit, James Wallace
3. Trade, profession of kind of work Radio Artificer 4. Kind of industry or business Royal Canadian Navy
5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor 6. Age 19 7. Religious denomination Anglican, Church of England
8. Citizenship Canadian 9. Racial origin Scottish
10. Residence H.M.C.S. Stadacona, Haliflax
11. Place of birth Welland, Ontario, Canada
12. Name of father William Gordon Petit
13. Maiden name of mother Dorothy Amelia Reid
14. Birthplace Father Ontario, Canada Mother Ireland
BRIDE
15. PRINT name in full Ford, Jean Lillian
16. Trade, profession of kind of work Stenographer 17. Kind of industry or business Government Office
18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster 19. Age 24 20. Religious denomination United Church of Canada
21. Citizenship Canadian 22. Racial origin English
23. Residence 216 Robie Street, Halifax
24. Place of birth Montreal, Quebec, Canada
25. Name of father Walter Ford
26. Maiden name of mother Hazel Margaret Drummond
27. Birthplace Father Quebec, Canada Mother Quebec, Canada
28. Date of marriage August 2 1946 29. By license or banns License 30. License number 83585
32. Signature of
Groom James Wallace Pettit
Bride Jean Lillian Ford
33. Signatures of Witnesses
Name Margaret M. Ford
Address 5236 Bannantyne Ave, Montreal
Name Murray Wood
Address Halifax
I certify the above stated particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Officiating Clergyman J.A. MacKenzie
Address Halifax
Religious denomination United Church
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