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Sidney Lewis Smith and Marion Elmore Swansburg married on 5 May 1947 at Halifax, Halifax County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 002352

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19472352

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Halifax

  City, Town or Village Halifax

  Street or Road 25 Vernon Street


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Smith, Sidney Lewis

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Registered Druggist   4. Kind of industry or business Medical

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 34   7. Religious denomination Baptist

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin English

10. Residence Digby, Nova Scotia

11. Place of birth Sydney Mines, Cape Breton

12. Name of father Howard Smith

13. Maiden name of mother Ida Hayes

14. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Swansburg, Marion Elmore

16. Trade, profession of kind of work Reg. Nurse   17. Kind of industry or business Medical

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 29   20. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin Dutch

23. Residence Little Harbor Shelburne County, Nova Scotia

24. Place of birth Little Harbor Shelburne County, Nova Scotia

25. Name of father Ernest Swansburg

26. Maiden name of mother Caroline Harding

27. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage May 5 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 86544


32. Signature of

Groom Sidney Lewis Smith

Bride   Marion Elmore Swansburg

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name G.E. Burshaw

Address   96 Edward St., Halifax, Nova Scotia

Name Christine Macdonald

Address   Louisburg, Cape Breton

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

Officiating Clergyman James O'Keegan

Address Halifax, Nova Scotia

Religious denomination United Church

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