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Austin Emmett Adams and Mary Margaret MacDowell married on 20 May 1947 at Enfield, Halifax County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 002532

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19472532

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Halifax

  City, Town or Village Enfield

  Street or Road St. Bernard's Church


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Adams, Austin Emmett

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Lumberman   4. Kind of industry or business Lumber

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 25   7. Religious denomination Roman Catholic

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin English

10. Residence Enfield, Hants County, Nova Scotia

11. Place of birth Gold River, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia

12. Name of father Norman Adams

13. Maiden name of mother Josephine Rafuse

14. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full MacDowell, Mary Margaret

16. Trade, profession of kind of work Clerk   17. Kind of industry or business Mail Order, Simpsons Ltd.

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

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin Irish

23. Residence Enfield, Hants County, N.S>

24. Place of birth Enfield, Hants County, Nova Scotia

25. Name of father Allen MacDowell

26. Maiden name of mother Mary Horne

27. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage May 20 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 22154


32. Signature of

Groom Austin Emmett Adams

Bride   Mary Margaret MacDowell

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name James Alfred Horne

Address   Enfield, Nova Scotia

Name Frances Elizabeth MacDowell

Address   Enfield, Nova Scotia

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

Officiating Clergyman Rev. J.J. Devine

Address St. Bernard's Church, Enfield, Nova Scotia

Religious denomination R.C.

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