Registration: Year: 1947 number: 003978
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA
MARRIAGE REGISTER
Register No. 19473978
PLACE OF MARRIAGE County of Kings
City, Town or Village Wolfville
Street or Road 4 Seaview Ave.
BRIDEGROOM
2. PRINT name in full Atwell, Austin M.
3. Trade, profession of kind of work Carpenter 4. Kind of industry or business Brookfields Construction Canning Cold Storage
5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Divorced 6. Age 46 7. Religious denomination Baptist
8. Citizenship Canadian 9. Racial origin Scottish -English
10. Residence Colebrook Station, Kings County Nova Scotia
11. Place of birth Lower Wolfville, Kings County, Nova Scotia
12. Name of father William Atwell
13. Maiden name of mother Ella Hardaker
14. Birthplace Father Melanson, Kings County, Nova Scotia Mother Sheffield’s Mills Kings County Nova Scotia
BRIDE
15. PRINT name in full MacKay, Williamina
16. Trade, profession of kind of work Cook 17. Kind of industry or business Nursing Home Scotland
18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster 19. Age 35 20. Religious denomination Church of Scotland
21. Citizenship British 22. Racial origin Scottish
23. Residence Lower Wolfville Nova Scotia c/o Mrs Joseph MacLaughlin
24. Place of birth Alness, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
25. Name of father Kenneth MacKay
26. Maiden name of mother Jessie Kellow
27. Birthplace Father Stratherrick, Invernessshire Mother Ardersier, Invernessshire
28. Date of marriage July 8 1947 29. By license or banns License 30. License number 88137
32. Signature of
Groom Austin M. Atwell
Bride Williamina MacKay
33. Signatures of Witnesses
Name Stella Schofield
Address 146 Spring St., W Roxbury, Mass
Name Leslie Best
Address Wolfville, Nova Scotia
I certify the above stated particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Officiating Clergyman George M. MacLean
Address 4 Seaview Ave., Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Religious denomination United Church of Canada
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