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Emmons Ephraim Devine and Edith Lillian Coughlin married on 28 June 1947 at Halifax, Halifax County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 003417

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19473417

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Halifax

  City, Town or Village Halifax

  Street or Road J.Wesley Smith Memorial Church


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Devine, Emmons Ephraim

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Security Police   4. Kind of industry or business Naval Yard

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 28   7. Religious denomination United Church of Canad

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin Irish

10. Residence 23 Stairs Place, Halifax. Nova Scotia

11. Place of birth Wood’s Harbour, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia

12. Name of father Robert Kempton Devine

13. Maiden name of mother Charlotte Nickerson

14. Birthplace Father Wood’s Harbour Nova Scotia   Mother Wood’s Harbour Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Coughlin, Edith Lillian

16. Trade, profession of kind of work Binder Worker   17. Kind of industry or business Imperial Pub. County

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 22   20. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin Irish

23. Residence 196 Windsor St., Halifax Nova Scotia

24. Place of birth Halifax Halifax County, Nova Scotia

25. Name of father George Phillip Coughlin

26. Maiden name of mother Lillian Olive Coughlin

27. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Bedford Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage June 28 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 87982


32. Signature of

Groom Emmons Ephraim Devine

Bride   Edith Lillian Coughlin

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Miss Barbara Dairson

Address   196 Windsor St. Halifax Nova Scotia

Name Arthur Gray

Address   4 Windsor Terrace, Halifax

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

Officiating Clergyman AG Penz

Address 550 Robie St., Halifax

Religious denomination United Church of Canada

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