Registration: Year: 1947 number: 003712
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA
MARRIAGE REGISTER
Register No. 19473712
PLACE OF MARRIAGE County of Halifax
City, Town or Village Halifax
Street or Road St Matthew’s United Church
BRIDEGROOM
2. PRINT name in full Hetherington, Ewart Albert Sim
3. Trade, profession of kind of work Social Worker 4. Kind of industry or business D.V.A. Hospital
5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor 6. Age 35 7. Religious denomination United Church of Canada
8. Citizenship Canadian 9. Racial origin Irish
10. Residence 250 Cottingham Street, Toronto, Ontario
11. Place of birth New Westminister, British Columbia
12. Name of father Albert Edward Heatherington
13. Maiden name of mother Ethel Mae Sim
14. Birthplace Father Ontario Mother Ontario
BRIDE
15. PRINT name in full Godsoe, Joan Elizabeth
16. Trade, profession of kind of work Stenographer 17. Kind of industry or business Bank
18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster 19. Age 29 20. Religious denomination United Church of Canada
21. Citizenship Canadian 22. Racial origin English
23. Residence 104 1/2 Queen Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia
24. Place of birth Halifax, Nova Scotia
25. Name of father Herbert David Godsoe
26. Maiden name of mother Julia Anna Heckman
27. Birthplace Father New Brunswick Mother Nova Scotia
28. Date of marriage July 19 1947 29. By license or banns License 30. License number 88437
32. Signature of
Groom Ewart Albert Sim Hetherington
Bride Joan Elizabeth Godsoe
33. Signatures of Witnesses
Name Marjorie Elizabeth Barrett
Address Beaverbank, Halifax County Nova Scotia
Name Herbert H. Godsoe
Address 104 1/2 Queen Street, Halifax Nova Scotia
I certify the above stated particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Officiating Clergyman Norman M. Slaughter
Address 87 Inglis Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Religious denomination United Church of Canada
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