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Howard Marriott Plank and Dorothy Elizabeth Colbert married on 25 April 1947 at Dartmouth, Halifax County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 002255

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19472255

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Halifax

  City, Town or Village Dartmouth

  Street or Road 58 Ochterloney Street


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Plank, Howard Marriott

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Regulating Petty Officer   4. Kind of industry or business Royal Canadian Navy, HMCS Stadacona

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Divorced   6. Age 31   7. Religious denomination Church of England

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin English

10. Residence HMCS Stadacona, Halifax, Nova Scotia

11. Place of birth Swift Current, Saskatchewan

12. Name of father Sydney george Plank

13. Maiden name of mother Jessie Rita Tibble

14. Birthplace Father London, England   Mother Gibralter


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Colbert, Dorothy Elizabeth

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

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 27   20. Religious denomination Church of England

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin English

23. Residence 24 Collier Avenue, Eastern Passage, Halifax County, Nova Scotia

24. Place of birth Dartmouth, Halifax County, Nova Scotia

25. Name of father William Christopher Colbert

26. Maiden name of mother Mae Elizabeth Hartley

27. Birthplace Father Dartmouth, Nova Scotia   Mother Halifax, Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage April 25 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 87171


32. Signature of

Groom Howard Marriott Plank

Bride   Dorothy Elizabeth Colbert

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Mrs. Muriel Soward

Address   Eastern Passage, Halifax County, Nova Scotia

Name arthur Ernest Blackman

Address   Royal Canadian Navy, Halifax, Nova Scotia

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

Officiating Clergyman Rev. Harold K. Irish

Address 58 Ochterloney Street, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

Religious denomination United Church of Canada

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