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John Allen Marsters and Bessie Ethel MacKinley married on 25 December 1947 at Kempt Shore, Hants County

Registration: Year: 1947 number: 006509

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

MARRIAGE REGISTER

Register No.  19476509

PLACE OF MARRIAGE   County of Hants

  City, Town or Village Kempt Shore

  Street or Road Home of Mrs. P. R. MacKinley


BRIDEGROOM

2. PRINT name in full Marsters, John Allen

3. Trade, profession of kind of work Manager   4. Kind of industry or business Retail Grocery

5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Bachelor   6. Age 22   7. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

8. Citizenship Canadian   9. Racial origin English and Scottish

10. Residence Walton, Hants County, Nova Scotia

11. Place of birth Lower Burlington, Hants County, Nova Scotia

12. Name of father William Sydney Marsters

13. Maiden name of mother Marion Genevieve Weatherbee

14. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother United States


BRIDE

15. PRINT name in full MacKinley, Bessie Ethel

16. Trade, profession of kind of work School Teacher   17. Kind of industry or business Public Education

18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Spinster   19. Age 21   20. Religious denomination United Church of Canada

21. Citizenship Canadian   22. Racial origin Scottish

23. Residence Cheverie, Hants County, Nova Scotia

24. Place of birth Kempt Shore, Hants County, Nova Scotia

25. Name of father Percy Robert MacKinley

26. Maiden name of mother Beatrice Victoria Brison

27. Birthplace Father Nova Scotia   Mother Nova Scotia


28. Date of marriage December 25 1947   29. By license or banns License 30. License number 91117


32. Signature of

Groom John Allen Marsters

Bride   Bessie Ethel MacKinley

33. Signatures of Witnesses

Name Charlotte Louise Brison

Address   Cheverie, Nova Scotia

Name G.S. Brison

Address   Cheverie, Nova Scotia

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

Officiating Clergyman Russell A. MacLeod

Address Cheverie, Hants County, Nova Scotia

Religious denomination United Church of Canada

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