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Charles Emerson Howard and Dorothy May MacWilliam married on 28 August 1947 at Oxford, Cumberland County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 004497

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19474497

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Cumberland

  City, Town or Village Oxford

  Street or Road


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Howard, Charles Emerson

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Advertising Agent   4. Kind of industry or business Newspaper Office

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 24   7. Religious denomination Baptist

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin English

10. Residence Albion Street, Amherst, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

11. Place of birth Oxford, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

12. Name of father Clarence Eugene Howard

13. Maiden name of mother Gertrude May Henderson

14. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full MacWilliam, Dorothy May

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

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 26   20. Religious denomination Baptist

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin Scotch

23. Residence Oxford, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

24. Place of birth Middle Sackville, New Brunswick

25. Name of father Rev. Ebenezer Robert macWilliam

26. Maiden name of mother Ida Bernice Crozur

27. Birthplace Father England   Mother New Brunswick


28. Date of marriage August 28 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 88848


32. Signature of

Groom Charles Emerson Howard

Bride   Dorothy May MacWilliam

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Marguerite Lois MacWilliam

Address   29 Acadia Street, Amherst, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

Name Robert James Milner

Address   61 Victoria Street, Amherst, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

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

Officiating Clergyman Rev. E. R. MacWilliam

Address Oxford, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

Religious denomination Baptist

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