Registration: Year: 1947 number: 001911
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA
MARRIAGE REGISTER
Register No. 19471911
PLACE OF MARRIAGE County of Halifax
City, Town or Village Halifax
Street or Road 49 Cornwallis St.
BRIDEGROOM
2. PRINT name in full Ruggles, Gordon Eugene
3. Trade, profession of kind of work Truck driver 4. Kind of industry or business Coal truck driver
5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor 6. Age 25 7. Religious denomination Church of England
8. Citizenship Canadian 9. Racial origin Negro - African
10. Residence 126-1/2 Gottingen St.
11. Place of birth Lequille, Annapolis County
12. Name of father Doesn't know
13. Maiden name of mother Maude A. Ruggles
14. Birthplace Father Doesn't know Mother Lequille, Anna. County, Nova Scotia
BRIDE
15. PRINT name in full Saunders, Edith Marjorie
16. Trade, profession of kind of work Silver Polisher 17. Kind of industry or business At home
18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster 19. Age 25 20. Religious denomination Baptist
21. Citizenship Canadian 22. Racial origin Negro - African
23. Residence 126-1/2 Gottingen St.
24. Place of birth Halifax City, Nova Scotia
25. Name of father John Saunders
26. Maiden name of mother Pauline James
27. Birthplace Father Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Mother Kentville, Nova Scotia
28. Date of marriage April 1 1947 29. By license or banns License 30. License number 86862
32. Signature of
Groom Gordon Eugene Ruggles
Bride Edith Marjorie Saunders
33. Signatures of Witnesses
Name Mrs George Viner (Evangeline)
Address Halifax, Nova Scotia
Name George H. Reid
Address Halifax, Nova Scotia
I certify the above stated particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Officiating Clergyman W. P. Oliver
Address 49 Cornwallis St
Religious denomination Baptist
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