Registration: Year: 1947 number: 004842
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA
MARRIAGE REGISTER
Register No. 19474842
PLACE OF MARRIAGE County of Cape Breton
City, Town or Village Dominion
Street or Road Immaculate Conception Church
BRIDEGROOM
2. PRINT name in full Nearing, Pius
3. Trade, profession of kind of work School Teacher 4. Kind of industry or business
5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor 6. Age 33 7. Religious denomination Catholic
8. Citizenship Canadian 9. Racial origin Irish
10. Residence Dominion, CB
11. Place of birth Dominion, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
12. Name of father Patrick Joseph Nearing
13. Maiden name of mother Flora MacMullin
14. Birthplace Father Lingan, Nova Scotia Mother Sydney Mines
BRIDE
15. PRINT name in full Burns, Rita Bridget Eileen
16. Trade, profession of kind of work Stenographer 17. Kind of industry or business Town Office
18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster 19. Age 25 20. Religious denomination Catholic
21. Citizenship Canadian 22. Racial origin French
23. Residence Mitchell Ave, Dominion, CB
24. Place of birth Dominion, CB
25. Name of father Moses Burns
26. Maiden name of mother Anastasia MacKinnon
27. Birthplace Father Margaree, Nova Scotia Mother Aspy Bay, Nova Scotia
28. Date of marriage August 12 1947 29. By license or banns License 30. License number
32. Signature of
Groom Pius Nearing
Bride Rita Bridget Eileen Burns
33. Signatures of Witnesses
Name Francis C. Fearing
Address 115 George St., Sydney, Nova Scotia
Name Mrs. Muriel Richard
Address 183 High St., New Glasgow, Nova Scotia
I certify the above stated particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Officiating Clergyman Peter A. Fearing
Address Canso, Nova Scotia
Religious denomination Catholic
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