Registration: Year: 1947 number: 002782
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA
MARRIAGE REGISTER
Register No. 19472782
PLACE OF MARRIAGE County of Annapolis
City, Town or Village Bridgetown
Street or Road Granville St.
BRIDEGROOM
2. PRINT name in full Young, Louis Gorham
3. Trade, profession of kind of work Retired Accountant 4. Kind of industry or business
5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Widowed 6. Age 61 7. Religious denomination Baptist
8. Citizenship Canadian 9. Racial origin English
10. Residence Granville Street, Bridgetown
11. Place of birth Bridgetown, Nova Scotia Annapolis County
12. Name of father Edward Collingwood Young
13. Maiden name of mother Elizabeth E. Fitzrandolph
14. Birthplace Father Brooklyn, Annapolis County Mother Bridgetown, Annapolis County
BRIDE
15. PRINT name in full Dechman, Ruth Edwina
16. Trade, profession of kind of work Housekeeper 17. Kind of industry or business
18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Widowed 19. Age 47 20. Religious denomination United Church of Canada
21. Citizenship Canadian 22. Racial origin Scotch
23. Residence Bridgetown, Nova Scotia
24. Place of birth Bridgetown, Nova Scotia Annapolis County
25. Name of father William Percival Burns
26. Maiden name of mother Edwina Longfellow Fennell
27. Birthplace Father Bridgetown, Annapolis County Mother Maine, USA
28. Date of marriage June 5 1947 29. By license or banns License 30. License number 87259
32. Signature of
Groom Louis Gorham Young
Bride Ruth Edwina Dechman
33. Signatures of Witnesses
Name Eleanor P. Mills
Address 148 Cumberland St. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Name Stemon A. Young
Address Bridgetown, Nova Scotia
I certify the above stated particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Officiating Clergyman John F. McDonald
Address Bridgetown, Nova Scotia
Religious denomination United Church
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