Registration: Year: 1947 number: 004105
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA
MARRIAGE REGISTER
Register No. 19474105
PLACE OF MARRIAGE County of Cumberland
City, Town or Village Amherst
Street or Road 47 Havelock, Bride's Home
BRIDEGROOM
2. PRINT name in full Heffel, Byron Bowness
3. Trade, profession of kind of work Auto Mechanic 4. Kind of industry or business Automobile
5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Divorced 6. Age 41 7. Religious denomination Presbyterian
8. Citizenship American 9. Racial origin Scottish
10. Residence Labrador, Goose Bay
11. Place of birth Summerside, Prince Edward Island
12. Name of father Robert Heffel
13. Maiden name of mother Adelia Harkness
14. Birthplace Father Prince Edward Island Mother Prince Edward Island
BRIDE
15. PRINT name in full Nelson, Rhoda Margaret
16. Trade, profession of kind of work Clerk 17. Kind of industry or business Florist
18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster 19. Age 37 20. Religious denomination Presbyterian
21. Citizenship Canadian 22. Racial origin Scottish
23. Residence 47 Havelock St., Amherst, Nova Scotia
24. Place of birth Maccan, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
25. Name of father Frederick Carl Nelson,
26. Maiden name of mother Georgina Hall English
27. Birthplace Father Springhill, Nova Scotia Mother Rexton, New Brunswick
28. Date of marriage August 19 1947 29. By license or banns License 30. License number 88843
32. Signature of
Groom Byron Bowness Heffel
Bride Rhoda Margaret Nelson
33. Signatures of Witnesses
Name Joseph Ralph Hunter
Address Springhill, Nova Scotia
Name Pearl Elizabeth Nelson
Address 47 Havelock St. Amherst, Nova Scotia
I certify the above stated particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Officiating Clergyman Cater. Windsor
Address 62 West Pleasant Street, Amherst, Nova Scotia
Religious denomination United Church of Canada
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