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Walter Edwin McLain and Gladys Pauline Hirtle married on 13 September 1947 at Bridgewater, Lunenburg County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 004488

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19474488

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Lunenburg

  City, Town or Village Bridgewater

  Street or Road Baptist Parsonage, Bridgewater Nova Scotia


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full McLain, Walter Edwin

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

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 26   7. Religious denomination Baptist

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin English

10. Residence West Clifford, Lunenburg County Nova Scotia

11. Place of birth West Clifford, Lunenburg County Nova Scotia

12. Name of father Caleb McLain

13. Maiden name of mother Annie Perkins

14. Birthplace Father Lunenburg   Mother Rhodes Island, United States


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Hirtle, Gladys Pauline

16. Trade, profession of kind of work House work   17. Kind of industry or business

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

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin German

23. Residence West Clifford, Lunenburg County Nova Scotia

24. Place of birth West Clifford, Lunenburg County Nova Scotia

25. Name of father Howard Hirtle

26. Maiden name of mother Ella Wile

27. Birthplace Father Lunenburg County   Mother Lunenburg County


28. Date of marriage September 13 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 89338


32. Signature of

Groom Walter Edwin McLain

Bride   Gladys Pauline Hirtle

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Mrs E.J. Zwicker

Address   Lapland, Nova Scotia

Name Mrs D. L. Kennedy

Address   Bridgewater, Nova Scotia

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

Officiating Clergyman David L. Kennedy

Address Bridgewater, Nova Scotia

Religious denomination United Baptist

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