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Reginald Victor Read and Mary Theresa Griffiths married on 30 September 1947 at Amherst, Cumberland County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 005167

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19475167

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Cumberland

  City, Town or Village Amherst

  Street or Road St. Charles Church


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Read, Reginald Victor

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Maker of trunks   4. Kind of industry or business Trunk manufacturing

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 19   7. Religious denomination Catholic

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin Scottish Irish

10. Residence Upper Nappan

11. Place of birth Upper Nappan

12. Name of father Charles Read

13. Maiden name of mother Emily Crowell

14. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Griffiths, Mary Theresa

16. Trade, profession of kind of work Trunk Trimmer   17. Kind of industry or business Trunk Manufacturing

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

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin Welsh

23. Residence 5 Almon Avenue, Amherst

24. Place of birth Amherst

25. Name of father Benjamin Griffiths

26. Maiden name of mother Theresa Guilderson

27. Birthplace Father Quebec   Mother Nova Scotia


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


32. Signature of

Groom Reginald Victor Read

Bride   Mary Theresa Griffiths

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Therese Legere

Address   Edgewood Ave., Amherst

Name John Vernon Gould

Address   Amherst

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

Officiating Clergyman John Campbell

Address 63 Church St., Amherst

Religious denomination Catholic

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