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Victor Harry Purchase and Valeda Edna Deyoung married on 21 September 1946 at Woodside, Halifax County

Registration: Year: 1946 number: 14187

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  14187

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Halifax

  City, Town or Village Woodside

  Street or Road St. Alban's Church


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Purchase, Victor Harry

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

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 22   7. Religious denomination Anglican, Church of England

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin English

10. Residence Woodstock, Ontario

11. Place of birth Woodstock, Ontario

12. Name of father Harry Purchase

13. Maiden name of mother Beatrice Ada Porter

14. Birthplace Father England   Mother Ontario


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Deyoung, Valeda Edna

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

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 22   20. Religious denomination Roman Catholic

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin French

23. Residence Eastern Passage

24. Place of birth Eastern Passage

25. Name of father George Arthur De Young

26. Maiden name of mother Eva Gorman

27. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage September 21 1946   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 84324


32. Signature of

Groom Victor Harry Purchase

Bride   Valeda Edna Deyoung

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Margaret Bellefountaine

Address   Eastern Passage

Name E. De Young

Address   Easter Passage

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

Officiating Clergyman Fred G. Moore

Address North Woodside, P.O.

Religious denomination Church of England

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