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Sydney Walter Avery and Frances Mae Richards married on 16 September 1947 at Halifax, Halifax County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 004798

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19474798

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Halifax

  City, Town or Village Halifax

  Street or Road St. John's United Church


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Avery, Sydney Walter

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Salesman   4. Kind of industry or business Confectionery

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 35   7. Religious denomination Protestant (Undenommenational)

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin English

10. Residence 47 Dublin Street

11. Place of birth South Africa

12. Name of father George David Avery

13. Maiden name of mother Grace Eleanor Bartlett

14. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother England


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Richards, Frances Mae

16. Trade, profession of kind of work Stenographer   17. Kind of industry or business Consular Service

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 29   20. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin English

23. Residence 49 Willow Street

24. Place of birth Halifax, Nova Scotia

25. Name of father William Gershon Richards

26. Maiden name of mother Hannah Catherine McCarthy

27. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage September 16 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 89217


32. Signature of

Groom Sydney Walter Avery

Bride   Frances Mae Richards

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Mary Frances Hatchette

Address   93 North St. Halifax

Name Aleare Kirby

Address   6 Vienna St. Halifax Nova Scotia

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

Officiating Clergyman T.D. Wocherd

Address 109 Willow St. Halifax

Religious denomination United Church of Canada

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