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Douglas Meryl Bates and Ethel Georgia McCabe married on 12 November 1947 at Greenfield, Colchester County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 005881

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19475881

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Colchester

  City, Town or Village Greenfield

  Street or Road


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Bates, Douglas Meryl

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Butcher   4. Kind of industry or business Butchering

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 23   7. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin Irish

10. Residence Truro, Pictou Road (Rural)

11. Place of birth Pictou Road, Col.Co., Nova Scotia

12. Name of father Wyman Bates

13. Maiden name of mother Nova Scotia  Iney

14. Birthplace Father Power   Mother Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full McCabe, Ethel Georgia

16. Trade, profession of kind of work Clerk   17. Kind of industry or business Drugs

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 23   20. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin Irish

23. Residence Truro, RR#2, Greenfield Ave.

24. Place of birth Greenfield, Colchester County, Nova Scotia

25. Name of father Perley McCabe

26. Maiden name of mother Nova Scotia  Loelor

27. Birthplace Father Stevens   Mother Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage November 12 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 91261


32. Signature of

Groom Douglas Meryl Bates

Bride   Ethel Georgia McCabe

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Gordon Bates

Address   RR#2, Truro, Nova Scotia

Name Doris Jane McCabe

Address   RR#3 Truro, Nova Scotia

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

Officiating Clergyman James P. Kaye

Address Truro, RR#2, Col.Co., Nova Scotia

Religious denomination United Church of Canada

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