Registration: Year: 1946 number: 141530
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA
MARRIAGE REGISTER
Register No. 141530
PLACE OF MARRIAGE County of Lunenburg
City, Town or Village Lunenburg
Street or Road St. John`s
BRIDEGROOM
2. PRINT name in full Best, Harold James
3. Trade, profession of kind of work Clergyman 4. Kind of industry or business
5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Widowed 6. Age 44 7. Religious denomination Anglican, Church of England
8. Citizenship Canadian 9. Racial origin English
10. Residence St. Lukes Rectory, Woodstock, New Brunswick
11. Place of birth England
12. Name of father William Edward Best
13. Maiden name of mother Emily Evans
14. Birthplace Father England Mother England
BRIDE
15. PRINT name in full Gardner, Frances Vivian
16. Trade, profession of kind of work Music Teacher 17. Kind of industry or business Music
18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster 19. Age 30 20. Religious denomination Anglican, Church of England
21. Citizenship Canadian 22. Racial origin English
23. Residence Lunenburg
24. Place of birth Lunenburg, N. Scotia
25. Name of father Mebourne Martin Gardner
26. Maiden name of mother Minnie Belle Smith
27. Birthplace Father Brooklyn, Queens Mother Lunenburg
28. Date of marriage October 3 1946 29. By license or banns License 30. License number 82803
32. Signature of
Groom Harold James Best
Bride Frances Vivian Gardner
33. Signatures of Witnesses
Name H. Highland
Address Bedford
Name Marion Lightfoot
Address Bedford
I certify the above stated particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Officiating Clergyman Ralph G. Fowlon
Address Lunenburg
Religious denomination Ch. of England
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