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Harold Joseph Jack and Lillian Margaret Canning married on 16 August 1947 at Tufts Cove, Halifax County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 003951

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19473951

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Halifax

  City, Town or Village Tufts Cove

  Street or Road Church Street, Baptist Church


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Jack, Harold Joseph

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

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 27   7. Religious denomination Baptist

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin Scottish

10. Residence Tufts Cove, Halifax County Nova Scotia

11. Place of birth Halifax, Halifax County Nova Scotia

12. Name of father Harry Jack

13. Maiden name of mother Alice Genoving

14. Birthplace Father Sonora, Guysboro County Nova Scotia   Mother Halifax, H'x Co Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Canning, Lillian Margaret

16. Trade, profession of kind of work Domestic   17. Kind of industry or business Housework (at home)

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 24   20. Religious denomination Baptist

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin Irish

23. Residence Tufts Cove, H'x. County Nova Scotia

24. Place of birth Sheet Harbour, H'x County Nova Scotia

25. Name of father Hiram Edgar Canning

26. Maiden name of mother Margaret Louise Harnish

27. Birthplace Father Cumberland County Nova Scotia   Mother Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage August 16 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 88820


32. Signature of

Groom Harold Joseph Jack

Bride   Lillian Margaret Canning

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Harry Jack

Address   Tufts Cove

Name Helen Canning

Address   Tufts Cove

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

Officiating Clergyman Rev. George P. Allen

Address Tufts Cove Halifax County Nova Scotia

Religious denomination Baptist

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