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Louis Gorham Young and Ruth Edwina Dechman married on 5 June 1947 at Bridgetown, Annapolis County

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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