Registration: Year: 1947 number: 005935
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA
MARRIAGE REGISTER
Register No. 19475935
PLACE OF MARRIAGE County of Cumberland
City, Town or Village Amherst
Street or Road 14 South Adelaide Street
BRIDEGROOM
2. PRINT name in full Atkinson, Kenneth Wendall
3. Trade, profession of kind of work Clerk 4. Kind of industry or business Railway Express Office
5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor 6. Age 23 7. Religious denomination United Church of Canada
8. Citizenship Canadian 9. Racial origin English
10. Residence Fort Lawrence, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
11. Place of birth Fort Lawrence, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
12. Name of father Leslie Copeland Atkinson
13. Maiden name of mother Mabel Gladys Chambers
14. Birthplace Father United States of America Mother Amherst, Nova Scotia
BRIDE
15. PRINT name in full Bird, Evelyn Marie
16. Trade, profession of kind of work Bookkeeper 17. Kind of industry or business Insurance Office
18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster 19. Age 22 20. Religious denomination United Church of Canada
21. Citizenship Canadian 22. Racial origin English
23. Residence 34 Croft St., Amherst, Nova Scotia
24. Place of birth Mapleton, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
25. Name of father Ritchie Morley Bird
26. Maiden name of mother Julia Celine Chapman
27. Birthplace Father Mapleton, Nova Scotia Mother Chapman Settlement, Nova Scotia
28. Date of marriage November 15 1947 29. By license or banns License 30. License number 89838
32. Signature of
Groom Kenneth Wendall Atkinson
Bride Evelyn Marie Bird
33. Signatures of Witnesses
Name Harold Atkinson
Address Fort Lawrence, Nova Scotia
Name Marion F. Haueil
Address 20 Clarence St., Amherst, Nova Scotia
I certify the above stated particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Officiating Clergyman Warren L. Langille
Address 14 So. Adelaide St., Amherst, Nova Scotia
Religious denomination The United Church of Canada
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