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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  140509

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Halifax

  City, Town or Village Halifax

  Street or Road 49 Cornwallis Street

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BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Johnson, Gerald

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

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 28   7. Religious denomination Baptist

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin African

10. Residence Africville, Halifax County

11. Place of birth Africville, Halifax County

12. Name of father Richard Johnson

13. Maiden name of mother Susan Roane

14. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia

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BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Brown, Ruth Evelyn

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

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 27   20. Religious denomination Baptist

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin African

23. Residence Africville

24. Place of birth Africville

25. Name of father William Brown

26. Maiden name of mother Edith MacDonald

27. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia

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28. Date of marriage August 2 1946   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 83354

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32. Signature of

Groom Gerald Johnson

Bride   Ruth Evelyn Brown

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Vivian Dixon

Address   Africville

Name Morton Berryman

Address   Africville

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

Officiating Clergyman W.P. Oliver

Address 49 Cornwallis Street, Halifax

Religious denomination Baptist

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