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Oliver Raymond Porter and Marion Carter Travis married on 16 September 1947 at East Amherst, Cumberland County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 005174

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19475174

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Cumberland

  City, Town or Village East Amherst

  Street or Road Brides Home


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Porter, Oliver Raymond

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Truckman   4. Kind of industry or business General Trucking

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 31   7. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin Scottish

10. Residence 12 Acadia St., Amherst, Nova Scotia

11. Place of birth Hastings, Cumb.Co., Nova Scotia

12. Name of father Frank Porter

13. Maiden name of mother Alice MacCallum

14. Birthplace Father Hastings, Nova Scotia   Mother Truro, Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Travis, Marion Carter

16. Trade, profession of kind of work Nurse   17. Kind of industry or business General Nursing

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 27   20. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin English

23. Residence East Amherst, Cumb.Co., Nova Scotia

24. Place of birth Glace Bay, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia

25. Name of father Donald Travis

26. Maiden name of mother Catherine  MacDonald

27. Birthplace Father East Amherst, Nova Scotia   Mother Glace Bay, Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage September 16 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 89311


32. Signature of

Groom Oliver Raymond Porter

Bride   Marion Carter Travis

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name John Kenneth MacLeod

Address   R. R. #4 Amherst, Nova Scotia

Name Ethel Catherine Ferguson

Address   15 Belmont St., Amherst, Nova Scotia

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

Officiating Clergyman Warren L. Langille

Address 14 So.Adelaide St., Amherst, Nova Scotia

Religious denomination The United Church of Canada

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