Registration: Year: 1947 number: 005618
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA
MARRIAGE REGISTER
Register No. 19475618
PLACE OF MARRIAGE County of Halifax
City, Town or Village Halifax
Street or Road St. Mary’s
BRIDEGROOM
2. PRINT name in full Coolen, Walter Burton
3. Trade, profession of kind of work Railway Mail Clerk 4. Kind of industry or business Civil Service
5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor 6. Age 25 7. Religious denomination Roman Catholic
8. Citizenship Canadian 9. Racial origin English
10. Residence 10 Bland St., Halifax, Nova Scotia
11. Place of birth Halifax, Nova Scotia
12. Name of father Walter Burton Coolen
13. Maiden name of mother Mary Dodson
14. Birthplace Father Lynn, Mass. USA Mother Glasgow, Scotland
BRIDE
15. PRINT name in full Vaughan, Joan Irene
16. Trade, profession of kind of work Stenographer 17. Kind of industry or business Civil Service
18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster 19. Age 23 20. Religious denomination Roman Catholic
21. Citizenship Canadian 22. Racial origin Welsh
23. Residence 51 Bland St., Halifax, Nova Scotia
24. Place of birth Halifax, Nova Scotia
25. Name of father James Michael Vaughan
26. Maiden name of mother Mary Agnes Lane
27. Birthplace Father Halifax Nova Scotia Mother Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
28. Date of marriage October 29 1947 29. By license or banns License 30. License number
32. Signature of
Groom Walter Burton Coolen
Bride Joan Irene Vaughan
33. Signatures of Witnesses
Name Mary J. Vaughan
Address 51 Bland St., Halifax, Nova Scotia
Name D. G Coolen
Address 10 Bland St.m Halifax, Nova Scotia
I certify the above stated particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Officiating Clergyman Richard J. Murphy
Address St. Mary’s Cathedral, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Religious denomination Catholic Priest
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