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Donald Lewis McNeil and Gertrude Lila Young married on 31 August 1946 at Melville Cove, Halifax County

Registration: Year: 1946 number: 141253

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  141253

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Halifax

  City, Town or Village Melville Cove

  Street or Road St. John the Baptist Church


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full McNeil, Donald Lewis

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Clerk   4. Kind of industry or business Nova Scotia Liquor Commission

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 21   7. Religious denomination Roman Catholic

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin Scottish

10. Residence Spryfield, Halifax County

11. Place of birth Halifax

12. Name of father Daniel McNeil

13. Maiden name of mother Maude Roache

14. Birthplace Father Halifax   Mother Halifax


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Young, Gertrude Lila

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

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

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin Scottish

23. Residence Purcell's Cove, Halifax County

24. Place of birth Halifax

25. Name of father Daniel Young

26. Maiden name of mother Ellen May Cosburn

27. Birthplace Father Glace Bay   Mother Lunenburg County


28. Date of marriage August 31 1946   29. By license or banns License 30. License number


32. Signature of

Groom Donald Lewis McNeil

Bride   Gertrude Lila Young

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Leo Patrick Duggan

Address   Spryfield

Name M. Landing

Address   Purcell's Cove

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

Officiating Clergyman P.F. Martin

Address Armdale

Religious denomination Catholic

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