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John Fraser MacLellan and Eileen Yule Colquhoun married on 14 June 1947 at Sydney, Cape Breton County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 002862

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19472862

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Cape Breton

  City, Town or Village Sydney

  Street or Road Brookland Street Church


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full MacLellan, John Fraser

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Student   4. Kind of industry or business Medicine

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

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin Scottish

10. Residence 130 Charlotte St., Sydney, Nova Scotia

11. Place of birth Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

12. Name of father Neil MacLellan

13. Maiden name of mother Mary Ann Fraser

14. Birthplace Father Cape Breton   Mother Cape Breton


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Colquhoun, Eileen Yule

16. Trade, profession of kind of work Student   17. Kind of industry or business Pharmacy

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

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin Scottish

23. Residence 408 Townsend St., Sydney, Nova Scotia

24. Place of birth Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

25. Name of father Walter Alexander Colquhoun

26. Maiden name of mother Dorothy Mary Hurlburt

27. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Ontario


28. Date of marriage June 14 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 87768


32. Signature of

Groom John Fraser MacLellan

Bride   Eileen Yule Colquhoun

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Patricia S. Colquhoun

Address   408 Townsend St., Sydney, Nova Scotia

Name J. L. Frazee

Address   Victoria General Hospital, Hfx, Nova Scotia

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

Officiating Clergyman Hugh Jack

Address 12 Lorway Ave., Sydney, Nova Scotia

Religious denomination Presbyterian

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