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Ellis Bell Sibley and Dorothy Maud Reid married on 23 September 1947 at Middle Musquedoboit, Halifax County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 004899

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19474899

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Halifax

  City, Town or Village Middle Musquedoboit

  Street or Road The Manse


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Sibley, Ellis Bell

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Farmer   4. Kind of industry or business Farming

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 29   7. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin English

10. Residence Chaswood, Halifax County, N S, RR#2 Shubenacadie

11. Place of birth Chaswood, Halifax County, Nova Scotia

12. Name of father George Stephenson Sibley

13. Maiden name of mother Ellen Jane Sargent

14. Birthplace Father Wittenburg, Colchester County Nova Scotia   Mother Chaswood, Halifax County N.S


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Reid, Dorothy Maud

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

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 21   20. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin Scotch

23. Residence Lindsay Lake, Halifax County, Nova Scotia R. R. #2, Middle Musquodoboit

24. Place of birth Michigan, USA

25. Name of father John Henry Reid

26. Maiden name of mother Eliza Odessa Redden

27. Birthplace Father Massachusetts, USA   Mother Lindsay Lake, Halifax County, Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage September 23 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 88292


32. Signature of

Groom Ellis Bell Sibley

Bride   Dorothy Maud Reid

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name James D. McFetridge

Address   R. R. #2, Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia

Name Nellie Lois McFetridge

Address   R. R. #2 Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia

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

Officiating Clergyman Ward H. MacLean

Address Middle Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia

Religious denomination The United Church of Canada

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