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John Leonard Brannen and Bernice Gloria Somerscales married on 12 December 1946 at Shelburne, Shelburne County

Registration: Year: 1946 number: 143443

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  143443

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Shelburne

  City, Town or Village Shelburne

  Street or Road Residence of Charles Read


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Brannen, John Leonard

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Salesman   4. Kind of industry or business Watkin Products

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 22   7. Religious denomination Baptist

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin Irish

10. Residence Shelburne

11. Place of birth Centreville, Cape Sable Island

12. Name of father William Ira Brannen

13. Maiden name of mother Lottie Blanche Penney

14. Birthplace Father Cape Sable Is.   Mother Cape Sable Is.


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Somerscales, Bernice Gloria

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

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Widowed   19. Age 22   20. Religious denomination Baptist

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin English

23. Residence Shelburne

24. Place of birth Stoney Island, Cape Sable Is.

25. Name of father Edgar Vance Atkinson

26. Maiden name of mother Marian Lee Cunningham

27. Birthplace Father Gloschester, Mass, USA   Mother Stoney Island, CSI


28. Date of marriage December 12 1946   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 85212


32. Signature of

Groom John Leonard Brannen

Bride   Bernice Gloria Somerscales

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Gordon Leveson Atkinson

Address   Shelburne County

Name Mrs. Cleveland Miller

Address   Shelburne

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

Officiating Clergyman G A Adam Beveridge

Address Shelburne

Religious denomination United Church of Canada

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