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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