Registration: Year: 1947 number: 002729
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA
MARRIAGE REGISTER
Register No. 19472729
PLACE OF MARRIAGE County of Cape Breton
City, Town or Village North Sydney
Street or Road St. Joseph's Church
BRIDEGROOM
2. PRINT name in full Hanna, Ernest
3. Trade, profession of kind of work Taxi 4. Kind of industry or business Transport
5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor 6. Age 25 7. Religious denomination Catholic
8. Citizenship Canadian 9. Racial origin Syrian
10. Residence 320 Townsend St. Sydney, Nova Scotia
11. Place of birth 320 Townsend St. Sydney, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton
12. Name of father Patrick Hanna
13. Maiden name of mother Annie Abbas
14. Birthplace Father Syria Mother Syria
BRIDE
15. PRINT name in full Kawaja, Alma Helen
16. Trade, profession of kind of work Nurse 17. Kind of industry or business Medical Prof.
18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster 19. Age 25 20. Religious denomination Catholic
21. Citizenship Canadian 22. Racial origin Syrian
23. Residence Queen St. North Sydney, Nova Scotia
24. Place of birth North Sydney, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton
25. Name of father Dalim Kawaja
26. Maiden name of mother Catherine Matter
27. Birthplace Father Lebanon Mother Syria
28. Date of marriage May 14 1947 29. By license or banns License 30. License number
32. Signature of
Groom Ernest Hanna
Bride Alma Helen Kawaja
33. Signatures of Witnesses
Name Gabriel Hanna
Address Lower Sackville Halifax, Nova Scotia
Name Genevieve Kawaja
Address Queen Street, North Sydney, Nova Scotia
I certify the above stated particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Officiating Clergyman Wm Edwards
Address St. Joseph's Church North Sydney
Religious denomination Catholic
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