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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