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Melbourne Charles Acker and Florence May MacPherson married on 29 November 1947 at Kentville, Kings County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 006333

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19476333

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Kings

  City, Town or Village Kentville

  Street or Road St. James Church Main St.


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Acker, Melbourne Charles

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Labourer   4. Kind of industry or business Dom. Atlantic Railroad

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Widowed   6. Age 36   7. Religious denomination Church of England

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin German (Lunen.Co., Nova Scotia)

10. Residence 30 Cornwallis St., Kentville

11. Place of birth First South, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia

12. Name of father Eleazar John Acker

13. Maiden name of mother Delilah Feener

14. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full MacPherson, Florence May

16. Trade, profession of kind of work None   17. Kind of industry or business At home

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 34   20. Religious denomination Roman Catholic

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin Scottish

23. Residence 30 Cornwallis St., Kentville, Nova Scotia

24. Place of birth Sydney Mines, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia

25. Name of father John Frank MacPherson

26. Maiden name of mother Mary Catherine  McIsaac

27. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage November 29 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 89608


32. Signature of

Groom Melbourne Charles Acker

Bride   Florence May MacPherson

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Margaret Jane Burke

Address   211 North St., Halifax, Nova Scotia

Name Bernard Edward Kenny

Address   Kentville, Nova Scotia

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

Officiating Clergyman J. R. Davies

Address Box 248, Kentville, Nova Scotia (St. James Rectoty)

Religious denomination Church of England in Canada

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