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Wallace Custance Thompson and Mary Ellen Lovelace married on 15 September 1947 at Sydney, Cape Breton County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 004911

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19474911

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Cape Breton

  City, Town or Village Sydney

  Street or Road Saint Andrew’s United Church


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Thompson, Wallace Custance

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Army   4. Kind of industry or business Clerk

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 24   7. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin Scottish + English

10. Residence South Maitland, Hants County, Nova Scotia

11. Place of birth South Maitland, Nova Scotia

12. Name of father Chipman Lewis Thompson

13. Maiden name of mother Inh Isabel Custance

14. Birthplace Father Lapland, Nova Scotia ( Lung.Co.)   Mother Rawdon, Hants County, Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Lovelace, Mary Ellen

16. Trade, profession of kind of work Switch Board Operator   17. Kind of industry or business Unemployment Commission

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 26   20. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin Scotch - English

23. Residence Sydney, 155 Argyle St.

24. Place of birth Sydney, Nova Scotia

25. Name of father Leonard Telfer Lovelace

26. Maiden name of mother Jessie Cameron

27. Birthplace Father Caledonia, Queens County, Nova Scotia   Mother St. George’s Channel, Richmond County, Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage September 15 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 89254


32. Signature of

Groom Wallace Custance Thompson

Bride   Mary Ellen Lovelace

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Emile Joseph Sautiere

Address   Bras d’Or, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

Name Dorothy Kathleen Lovelace

Address   155 Argyle St., Sydney, Nova Scotia

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

Officiating Clergyman A. Frank MacLean

Address 262 Bentinck St., Sydney, Nova Scotia

Religious denomination United Church of Canada

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