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Roderick Ian MacNeil and Shirley Melba Kerr married on 28 June 1947 at Sydney, Cape Breton County

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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