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Lindley Ralph MacDonald and Lois May Messenger married on 16 August 1947 at Yarmouth, Yarmouth County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 004534

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19474534

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Yarmouth

  City, Town or Village Yarmouth

  Street or Road 27 King


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full MacDonald, Lindley Ralph

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Steward   4. Kind of industry or business Steamship

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Widowed   6. Age 50   7. Religious denomination Baptist

8. Citizenship American   9. Racial origin Scots

10. Residence 572 Huntington Ave., Boston, Mass. USA

11. Place of birth Nova Scotia, Yarmouth County, Yarmouth

12. Name of father Ralph MacDonald

13. Maiden name of mother Florence Eulalia Goodwin

14. Birthplace Father Scotland   Mother Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Messenger, Lois May

16. Trade, profession of kind of work Salesclerk   17. Kind of industry or business Dry Goods

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Widowed   19. Age 52   20. Religious denomination Baptist

21. Citizenship American   22. Racial origin English

23. Residence 11 Nassau St. Boston, Mass., USA

24. Place of birth Nova Scotia, Shelburne County, Cape Sable Island

25. Name of father Charles W. Newell

26. Maiden name of mother Isabel Smith

27. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage August 16 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 88279


32. Signature of

Groom Lindley Ralph MacDonald

Bride   Lois May Messenger

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Royal Chester Wagner

Address   Millenbeck Virginia USA

Name Isabel MacDonald

Address   Yarmouth Nova Scotia

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

Officiating Clergyman Cecil L. Blanchard

Address 24 Brunswick St., Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Religious denomination United Church of Canada

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