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Leon Orland Carter and Lillian Carter married on 26 October 1947 at Oxford, Cumberland County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 005988

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19475988

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Cumberland

  City, Town or Village Oxford

  Street or Road Elm Street Baptist Parsonage


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Carter, Leon Orland

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Farmer   4. Kind of industry or business Farming

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 19   7. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin Scottish

10. Residence Hartford Nova Scotia

11. Place of birth Hartford, Nova Scotia

12. Name of father George Nelson Carter

13. Maiden name of mother Sadie Winifred Campbell

14. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Carter, Lillian

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

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 21   20. Religious denomination Baptist

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin Scotch

23. Residence Hartford Nova Scotia

24. Place of birth Halifax Nova Scotia

25. Name of father Fred Trueman Carter

26. Maiden name of mother Margaret Anne Way

27. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage October 26 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 89329


32. Signature of

Groom Leon Orland Carter

Bride   Lillian Carter

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Mrs Donna Ruth Lewis

Address   Pugwash Jct

Name Mr Stanley John Lewis

Address   Pugwash Jct.

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

Officiating Clergyman Rev. E. R. MacWilliam

Address Oxford, Nova Scotia

Religious denomination Baptist

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