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Alden Churchill Locke and Madeline Louise Atkinson married on 26 November 1947 at Shelburne, Shelburne County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 006289

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19476289

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Shelburne

  City, Town or Village Shelburne

  Street or Road Mowatt Baptist Parsonage


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Locke, Alden Churchill

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Fisherman   4. Kind of industry or business Fishing

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 27   7. Religious denomination Baptist

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin Scottish

10. Residence Lower Jordan Bay, Shelb. County, Nova Scotia

11. Place of birth Lower Jordan Bay, Shelb. County, N.S

12. Name of father Burns Samuel Locke

13. Maiden name of mother Harriett Viola Thorburn

14. Birthplace Father Shelb. County, Nova Scotia   Mother Shelb. County, Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Atkinson, Madeline Louise

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

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

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin English

23. Residence Lower Jordan Bay, Shelb. County, Nova Scotia

24. Place of birth Clarke's Harbour, Cape Sable Island, Shelb. County, N.S

25. Name of father Bride looked after by Childrens Aid Society Unknown to Bride

26. Maiden name of mother Bertha Atkinson

27. Birthplace Father Unknown by Bride   Mother Shelburne County, Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage November 26 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 90183


32. Signature of

Groom Alden Churchill Locke

Bride   Madeline Louise Atkinson

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Lester Edwin Thorburn

Address   Jordan Bay, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia

Name Mrs. Lester E. Thorburn

Address   Lower Jordan Bay, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia

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

Officiating Clergyman A. G.

Address Shelburne, Nova Scotia

Religious denomination United Baptist

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