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Percy Carl Foster and Alice Hannah Dowe married on 10 September 1947 at Amherst, Cumberland County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 004498

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19474498

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Cumberland

  City, Town or Village Amherst

  Street or Road 14 South Adelaide Street


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Foster, Percy Carl

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

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 35   7. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin English

10. Residence Hastings, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

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

12. Name of father Elmore Foster

13. Maiden name of mother Agnes Manship

14. Birthplace Father Hastings, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia   Mother Truemanville, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Dowe, Alice Hannah

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

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 18   20. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin English

23. Residence Ward's Brook, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

24. Place of birth North Greville, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

25. Name of father Norby Dowe

26. Maiden name of mother Marjorie Hughes

27. Birthplace Father Diligent River, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia   Mother Fox River, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage September 10 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 89308


32. Signature of

Groom Percy Carl Foster

Bride   Alice Hannah Dowe

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Mrs. Arminta E. Brooks

Address   RR #5, Amherst, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

Name Mrs. Annie Higgins

Address   6 Charles Street, Amherst, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

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

Officiating Clergyman Warren L. Langille

Address 14 South Adelaide Street, Amherst, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

Religious denomination The United Church of Canada

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