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Herman Benjamin Weeks and Elsie Mae Forshner married on 12 October 1946 at River Philip, Cumberland County

Registration: Year: 1946 number: 141888

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  141888

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Cumberland

  City, Town or Village River Philip

  Street or Road Home of the Bride


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Weeks, Herman Benjamin

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

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 23   7. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin English

10. Residence 43 King Street, Truro

11. Place of birth Thomson Station

12. Name of father Benjamin Weeks

13. Maiden name of mother Maude Moreau

14. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Forshner, Elsie Mae

16. Trade, profession of kind of work Parker Woolen Mills   17. Kind of industry or business Woolen Mills

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 21   20. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin Canadian

23. Residence Truro

24. Place of birth River Philip

25. Name of father Arthur Forshner

26. Maiden name of mother Florence Augusto Dikens

27. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage October 12 1946   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 84872


32. Signature of

Groom Herman Benjamin Weeks

Bride   Elsie Mae Forshner

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Mrs. Roy Pearson

Address   River Philip

Name George Forshner

Address   River Philip

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

Officiating Clergyman W.H. Watts

Address Collingwood

Religious denomination United Church of Canada

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