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Merle Stuart Swaine and Ivy Pauline Nickerson married on 19 April 1947 at Crowell, Shelburne County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 002377

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19472377

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Shelburne

  City, Town or Village Crowell

  Street or Road Baptist Parsonage


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Swaine, Merle Stuart

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Merchant   4. Kind of industry or business Store

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 23   7. Religious denomination Baptist

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin English

10. Residence Shag Harbor Shelburne County, Nova Scotia

11. Place of birth Shag Harbor, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia

12. Name of father Harold Stuart Swaine

13. Maiden name of mother Bessie Banks

14. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Nickerson, Ivy Pauline

16. Trade, profession of kind of work housemaid   17. Kind of industry or business housework

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 21   20. Religious denomination Baptist

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin English

23. Residence Shag Harbor, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia

24. Place of birth Central Wood's Harbor, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia

25. Name of father Jeremiah Nickerson

26. Maiden name of mother Ella Smith

27. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage April 19 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 87012


32. Signature of

Groom Merle Stuart Swaine

Bride   Ivy Pauline Nickerson

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Norma Deborah Nickerson

Address   Central Wood Harbor, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia

Name Brinton L. Nickerson

Address   Barrington PO Box 43, Nova Scotia

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

Officiating Clergyman Rev. Philip M. De Long

Address Cromwell, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia

Religious denomination United Baptist

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