Registration: Year: 1947 number: 005661
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA
MARRIAGE REGISTER
Register No. 19475661
PLACE OF MARRIAGE County of Cumberland
City, Town or Village Amherst
Street or Road 63 Church St.
BRIDEGROOM
2. PRINT name in full Rhindress, Benjamin Alexander
3. Trade, profession of kind of work Mechanic 4. Kind of industry or business R. C. A. F.
5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor 6. Age 20 7. Religious denomination Baptist
8. Citizenship Canadian 9. Racial origin English-Irish
10. Residence 18 Patterson St. Amherst,Nova Scotia
11. Place of birth Amherst, Nova Scotia
12. Name of father Alexander Rhindress
13. Maiden name of mother Candace Finnigan
14. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia Mother Nova Scotia
BRIDE
15. PRINT name in full Nixon, Eleanor Dorothy
16. Trade, profession of kind of work Clerk 17. Kind of industry or business Dry cleaners
18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster 19. Age 22 20. Religious denomination Catholic
21. Citizenship Canadian 22. Racial origin English - French
23. Residence 11 Ratchford St., Amherst, Nova Scotia
24. Place of birth Amherst, Nova Scotia
25. Name of father William Robert Nixon
26. Maiden name of mother Alice Gaudet
27. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia Mother Amherst, Nova Scotia
28. Date of marriage October 30 1947 29. By license or banns License 30. License number 89835
32. Signature of
Groom Benjamin Alexander Rhindress
Bride Eleanor Dorothy Nixon
33. Signatures of Witnesses
Name Robert B. Rhindress
Address 15 Patterson St., Amherst, Nova Scotia
Name Ella Mae Gaudet
Address 9 Ratchford St., Amherst, Nova Scotia
I certify the above stated particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Officiating Clergyman John R. Campbell
Address 63 Church St., Amherst, Nova Scotia
Religious denomination Catholic
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