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Burnham Taylor Higgins and Violet May Brown married on 28 June 1947 at Middle Musquedoboit, Halifax County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 003506

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19473506

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Halifax

  City, Town or Village Middle Musquedoboit

  Street or Road The Manse


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Higgins, Burnham Taylor

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Farmer   4. Kind of industry or business Farming

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 24   7. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin English

10. Residence Middle Musquodoboit R.R. #5 Halifax County, Nova Scotia.

11. Place of birth Elmsdale, Halifax County, Nova Scotia

12. Name of father George Franklin Higgins

13. Maiden name of mother Luella Grace Taylor

14. Birthplace Father Lindsay Lake, Hal.Co. Nova Scotia   Mother Wittenberg, Col County Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Brown, Violet May

16. Trade, profession of kind of work Teacher   17. Kind of industry or business Public School

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

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin English

23. Residence Cochrane Gold Mines, Halifax County, Nova Scotia

24. Place of birth Cochrane Gold Mines, Halifax County, Nova Scotia

25. Name of father Stanley Freeman Brown

26. Maiden name of mother Stella Mary Benedict

27. Birthplace Father Cochrane, Halifax County, Nova Scotia   Mother Windsor, Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage June 28 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 85827


32. Signature of

Groom Burnham Taylor Higgins

Bride   Violet May Brown

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name G.F. Higgins

Address   Middle Musquodoboit

Name Stella M. Brown

Address   Cochrane Gold Mines, Halifax County, Nova Scotia

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

Officiating Clergyman Ward H. MacLean

Address Middle Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia

Religious denomination United Church of Canada

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