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Edward Warburton Sparks and Ruth Maravon Bonnell married on 8 August 1947 at Tufts Cove, Halifax County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 003916

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19473916

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Halifax

  City, Town or Village Tufts Cove

  Street or Road 1 Church Street


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Sparks, Edward Warburton

3. Trade, profession of kind of work painter and Decorater   4. Kind of industry or business Painting

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Widowed   6. Age 40   7. Religious denomination Methodist

8. Citizenship American   9. Racial origin English

10. Residence 78 Norwood Street, Everett, Massachusetts, USA

11. Place of birth Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

12. Name of father Isaac D. Sparks

13. Maiden name of mother Rebecca Baggs

14. Birthplace Father Newfoundland   Mother Newfoundland


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Bonnell, Ruth Maravon

16. Trade, profession of kind of work Stenographer   17. Kind of industry or business Business Office

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Divorced   19. Age 20   20. Religious denomination Universalist

21. Citizenship American   22. Racial origin English

23. Residence 1077 Beacon Street, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA

24. Place of birth Somerville, Massachusetts, USA

25. Name of father Robert Fraelic

26. Maiden name of mother Edith Roberts

27. Birthplace Father Liverpool, Queens County, Nova Scotia   Mother Waverley, Halifax County, Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage August 8 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 88735


32. Signature of

Groom Edward Warburton Sparks

Bride   Ruth Maravon Bonnell

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Percy A. Roberts

Address   Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

Name Edith D. Narcise

Address   72 Newbern Avenue, Medford, Massachusetts, USA

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

Officiating Clergyman Goerge P. Allen

Address Tufts Cove, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

Religious denomination Baptist

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