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Garnet Dwight Palmer and Ellen Heloise Shipley married on 20 August 1947 at Salem, Yarmouth County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 004653

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

REGISTERED No.  19474653

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Yarmouth in City or Town Salem

BRIDEGROOM

1. PRINT name in full Palmer, Garnet Dwight

2. Trade, profession of kind of work Farmer   Kind of industry or business Orchard

3. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   4. Age 27

5. Religious denomination Baptist   6. Racial origin English

7. Residence Melvern Square, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia

8. Place of birth Nova Scotia, Annapolis County

9. Name of father Earle Elmore Palmer

10. Place of birth of father Melvern Square Annapolis County Nova Scotia

11. Maiden name of mother Mable Walker

BRIDE

13. PRINT name in full Shipley, Ellen Heloise

14. Trade, profession of kind of work Teacher   Kind of industry or business Public School

15. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   16. Age 28

17. Religious denomination United Church of Canada   18. Racial origin English

19. Residence Salem, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia

20. Place of birth Nova Scotia, Cumberland County

21. Name of father Roland Joseph  Shipley

22. Place of birth of father Amherst, Nova Scotia

23. Maiden name of mother Grace Evelyn Smith


25. When married 20 day of August 1947

26. Place of marriage  Salem, Yarmouth County

27. By license or banns 67000

28. Signature of

Groom Garnet Dwight Palmer

Bride   Ellen Heloise Shipley

29. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Dorothy Annie Shipley

Address  Wirral, New Brunswick

Name Malcolm C. Balion

Address  Melvern Square, Nova Scotia

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

Officiating Clergyman Cecil L. Blanchard

Address Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Religious denomination United Church of Canada

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