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Joseph Garfield Henshaw and Nina Elizabeth Thorpe married on 5 November 1947 at Kentville, Kings County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 005857

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19475857

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Kings

  City, Town or Village Kentville

  Street or Road Baptist Parsonage 517 Main


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Henshaw, Joseph Garfield

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Labourer   4. Kind of industry or business Railway

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 23   7. Religious denomination Baptist

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin English

10. Residence Lockhartville, Kings County, Nova Scotia

11. Place of birth Lockhartville, Kings County, Nova Scotia

12. Name of father Percy Henshaw

13. Maiden name of mother Nova Scotia  Mary

14. Birthplace Father Brewster   Mother Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Thorpe, Nina Elizabeth

16. Trade, profession of kind of work Housework   17. Kind of industry or business At home

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 17   20. Religious denomination Baptist

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin English

23. Residence Canning, Kings County, Nova Scotia

24. Place of birth Sheffield Mills, Kings County, Nova Scotia

25. Name of father Guy Thorpe

26. Maiden name of mother Nova Scotia  Jeanette

27. Birthplace Father Greencorn   Mother Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage November 5 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 87619


32. Signature of

Groom Joseph Garfield Henshaw

Bride   Nina Elizabeth Thorpe

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Guy Thorpe

Address   Canning, Nova Scotia

Name ……Nettie Thorpe

Address   Canning, Nova Scotia

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

Officiating Clergyman Freeman Fenerly

Address 517 Main St., Kentville, Nova Scotia

Religious denomination United Baptist

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