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Avon Tupper Mosher and Alice Guthrie Nelson married on 13 December 1947 at Amherst, Cumberland County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 006295

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19476295

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Cumberland

  City, Town or Village Amherst

  Street or Road 14 South Adelaide Street


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Mosher, Avon Tupper

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Salesman   4. Kind of industry or business Food Merchant

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 49   7. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin German

10. Residence Stewiacke, Colchester Co, Nova Scotia

11. Place of birth Stewiacke, Colchester Co, Nova Scotia

12. Name of father James Wilson Mosher

13. Maiden name of mother Margaret Tupper

14. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full Nelson, Alice Guthrie

16. Trade, profession of kind of work Bookkeeper   17. Kind of industry or business General Store

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 40   20. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin English

23. Residence Stewiacke, Colchester Co, Nova Scotia

24. Place of birth Stewiacke, Colchester Co, Nova Scotia

25. Name of father Fred Nelson

26. Maiden name of mother Rebecca Ervin

27. Birthplace Father Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia   Mother Chaswood, Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage December 13 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 89444


32. Signature of

Groom Avon Tupper Mosher

Bride   Alice Guthrie Nelson

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name D.A. MacCallum

Address   155 1/2 Victoria Street East, Amherst, Nova Scotia

Name Edith N. MacCallum

Address   155 1/2 Victoria Street East, 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 South Adelaide Street, Amherst, Nova Scotia

Religious denomination United Church of Canada

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