Registration: Year: 1947 number: 002537
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA
MARRIAGE REGISTER
Register No. 19472537
PLACE OF MARRIAGE County of Halifax
City, Town or Village Dartmouth
Street or Road
BRIDEGROOM
2. PRINT name in full Thornhill, Alexander Richard
3. Trade, profession of kind of work Machine Operator/Factory Worker 4. Kind of industry or business Rope Works
5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor 6. Age 22 7. Religious denomination United Church of Canada
8. Citizenship Canadian 9. Racial origin English
10. Residence Albro Lake Road, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
11. Place of birth Newfoundland
12. Name of father John Thornhill
13. Maiden name of mother Alice Lawrence
14. Birthplace Father Newfoundland Mother Newfoundland
BRIDE
15. PRINT name in full Dillon, Loretta
16. Trade, profession of kind of work 17. Kind of industry or business At Home
18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster 19. Age 22 20. Religious denomination Catholic
21. Citizenship Canadian 22. Racial origin English
23. Residence Albro Lake Road, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
24. Place of birth St. John's, Newfoundland
25. Name of father Matthew Dillon
26. Maiden name of mother Agnes Frizzel
27. Birthplace Father Newfoundland Mother Newfoundland
28. Date of marriage May 17 1947 29. By license or banns License 30. License number 87314
32. Signature of
Groom Alexander Richard Thornhill
Bride Loretta Dillon
33. Signatures of Witnesses
Name Glenn Douglas Oakes
Address 195 Creighton Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Name Mrs. B. L. Eisener
Address Albro Lake Road, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
I certify the above stated particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Officiating Clergyman W. S. Irving
Address Henry Street, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Religious denomination United Church
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