Registration: Year: 1947 number: 003464
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA
MARRIAGE REGISTER
Register No. 19473464
PLACE OF MARRIAGE County of Cape Breton
City, Town or Village Sydney
Street or Road Saint Andew's United Church
BRIDEGROOM
2. PRINT name in full MacNeil, Roderick Ian
3. Trade, profession of kind of work Reporter 4. Kind of industry or business Canadian Press
5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor 6. Age 25 7. Religious denomination Presbyterian
8. Citizenship Canadian 9. Racial origin Scottish
10. Residence Sydney, Rigby Road 32
11. Place of birth Sydney, Nova Scotia
12. Name of father John MacNeil
13. Maiden name of mother Mary Sophia MacDonald
14. Birthplace Father Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Mother Sydney, Nova Scotia
BRIDE
15. PRINT name in full Kerr, Shirley Melba
16. Trade, profession of kind of work Stenographer 17. Kind of industry or business Canada Packers
18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster 19. Age 22 20. Religious denomination United Church of Canada
21. Citizenship Canadian 22. Racial origin Scotch
23. Residence Sydney, 50 Bentinck 16
24. Place of birth Glace Bay, Nova Scotia
25. Name of father Murdoch Kenneth Kerr
26. Maiden name of mother Anna Louise Morrison
27. Birthplace Father Louisburg, Nova Scotia Mother Louisburg, Nova Scotia
28. Date of marriage June 28 1947 29. By license or banns License 30. License number 87900
32. Signature of
Groom Roderick Ian MacNeil
Bride Shirley Melba Kerr
33. Signatures of Witnesses
Name Andi C. MacNeil
Address 32 Rigby Rd., Nova Scotia, Sydney
Name Elaine Murdene Kerr
Address 16, 50 Bentinck St., Sydney, Nova Scotia
I certify the above stated particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Officiating Clergyman G. Frank MacLean
Address 262 Bentinck St., Sydney, Nova Scotia
Religious denomination United Church of Canada
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