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Edward Alex Gordon Ayre and Mary Edna MacPhee married on 29 September 1947 at Sydney, Cape Breton County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 005586

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19475586

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Cape Breton

  City, Town or Village Sydney

  Street or Road 12 Lorway Avenue


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Ayre, Edward Alex Gordon

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Brakeman   4. Kind of industry or business Steel County

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

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin English

10. Residence 192 Shore Rd., Sydney, Nova Scotia

11. Place of birth Newfoundland

12. Name of father Edward Thomas Ayre

13. Maiden name of mother Bridget Selina Wells

14. Birthplace Father Newfoundland   Mother Newfoundland


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full MacPhee, Mary Edna

16. Trade, profession of kind of work Household Duties   17. Kind of industry or business at home

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 25   20. Religious denomination Roman Catholic

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin French

23. Residence 1554 Victoria Rd, Sydney, Nova Scotia

24. Place of birth River Bourgeois, Richmond County, Nova Scotia

25. Name of father Charles Joseph MacPhee

26. Maiden name of mother Angele Sampson

27. Birthplace Father Richmond Co   Mother Richmond Co


28. Date of marriage September 29 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 89263


32. Signature of

Groom Edward Alex Gordon Ayre

Bride   Mary Edna MacPhee

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Mrs. Norman Ayre

Address   202 Mt. Pleasant, Sydney

Name Norman Ayre

Address   202 Mt.Pleasant, Sydney

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

Officiating Clergyman Hugh Jack

Address 12 Lorway Ave., Sydney

Religious denomination Presbyterian

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