Registration: Year: 1947 number: 003067
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA
MARRIAGE REGISTER
Register No. 19473067
PLACE OF MARRIAGE County of Shelburne
City, Town or Village Shelburne
Street or Road Baptist Parsonage
BRIDEGROOM
2. PRINT name in full Rice, William Sanford
3. Trade, profession of kind of work Lab Tester 4. Kind of industry or business Paper Mill
5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor 6. Age 22 7. Religious denomination Protestant - Baptist
8. Citizenship Canadian 9. Racial origin Scottish
10. Residence Brooklyn, Queens County Nova Scotia
11. Place of birth Sydney, C.Breton Nova Scotia
12. Name of father George Ingram Rice
13. Maiden name of mother Irene Marie Gruchey
14. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia Mother Nova Scotia
BRIDE
15. PRINT name in full Hanes, Margaret Norma
16. Trade, profession of kind of work Teacher 17. Kind of industry or business Village school
18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster 19. Age 20 20. Religious denomination Baptist
21. Citizenship Canadian 22. Racial origin Scottish
23. Residence Brooklyn Queens County
24. Place of birth Truro Nova Scotia
25. Name of father Robert Estus Hanes
26. Maiden name of mother Mary Elizabeth Waller
27. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia Mother Nova Scotia
28. Date of marriage May 31 1947 29. By license or banns License 30. License number 87570
32. Signature of
Groom William Sanford Rice
Bride Margaret Norma Hanes
33. Signatures of Witnesses
Name W. Hartley Hopkins
Address Shelburne Nova Scotia
Name Mary Erma Hopkins
Address Shelburne Nova Scotia
I certify the above stated particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Officiating Clergyman A.G.J. Steeves
Address Shelburne Nova Scotia
Religious denomination United Baptist
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