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Joseph Gerard Sparrow and Loretta Angeline Deveauy married on 18 August 1947 at Glace Bay, Cape Breton County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 004872

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19474872

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Cape Breton

  City, Town or Village Glace Bay

  Street or Road St. Anne’s Church


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Sparrow, Joseph Gerard

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Truck Driver   4. Kind of industry or business

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 21   7. Religious denomination Catholic

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin Scottish

10. Residence Reserve Mines, CBC, Nova Scotia

11. Place of birth Reserve Mines, CBC, Nova Scotia

12. Name of father Cecil John Sparrow

13. Maiden name of mother Helen Tobin

14. Birthplace Father Ottawa, Ontario   Mother Sydney, Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Deveauy, Loretta Angeline

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

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 16   20. Religious denomination Catholic

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin French

23. Residence Glace Bay, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia

24. Place of birth Glace Bay, Nova Scotia

25. Name of father Joseph William Deveauy

26. Maiden name of mother Helen Poirer

27. Birthplace Father Cheticamp, Nova Scotia   Mother Cheticamp, Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage August 18 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number


32. Signature of

Groom Joseph Gerard Sparrow

Bride   Loretta Angeline Deveauy

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Melvin Bisson

Address   Glace Bay, Nova Scotia

Name Elizabeth Sparrow

Address   Reserve Mines, Nova Scotia

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

Officiating Clergyman M. A. MacAdams

Address Glace Bay

Religious denomination Catholic

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