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Wylie Albert Porter and Flora Marguerite McKim married on 20 September 1947 at Amherst, Cumberland County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 005172

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19475172

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Cumberland

  City, Town or Village Amherst

  Street or Road Christ Church


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Porter, Wylie Albert

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Packer   4. Kind of industry or business Salt Mines Industry

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 22   7. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin English

10. Residence Fenwick, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

11. Place of birth Fenwick, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

12. Name of father Gerald Wellington Porter

13. Maiden name of mother Gentis Eliza Smith

14. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full McKim, Flora Marguerite

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

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 18   20. Religious denomination Church of England

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin Scottish

23. Residence Brookdale, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

24. Place of birth Buffalo, New York, USA

25. Name of father Byron Logan McKim

26. Maiden name of mother Grace Rhodora Meredith Smith

27. Birthplace Father Manchester, Mass., USA   Mother Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage September 20 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 89316


32. Signature of

Groom Wylie Albert Porter

Bride   Flora Marguerite McKim

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Gerald Alexander Porter

Address   Fenwick, Cumb.Co., Nova Scotia

Name Barbara Mae Bickerton

Address   Berwick, Nova Scotia

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

Officiating Clergyman J. Earle Sheehy

Address 53 Havelock St., Amherst, Nova Scotia

Religious denomination Church of England

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