Registration: Year: 1947 number: 006564
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA
MARRIAGE REGISTER
Register No. 19476564
PLACE OF MARRIAGE County of Halifax
City, Town or Village Halifax
Street or Road Tupper Grove
BRIDEGROOM
2. PRINT name in full Reagh, John Ansley
3. Trade, profession of kind of work Merchant 4. Kind of industry or business Apple Exporter
5. Bachelor, Widower or Divorced Widowed 6. Age 49 7. Religious denomination United Church of Canada
8. Citizenship Canadian 9. Racial origin English
10. Residence Middleton, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia
11. Place of birth Brooklyn, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia
12. Name of father George Neily Reagh
13. Maiden name of mother Bessie Bell Elliott
14. Birthplace Father Annapolis County Mother Annapolis County
BRIDE
15. PRINT name in full Balch, Viola Belle
16. Trade, profession of kind of work Housewife 17. Kind of industry or business
18. Spinster Widow or Divorced Widowed 19. Age 45 20. Religious denomination Baptist
21. Citizenship Canadian 22. Racial origin Sottish
23. Residence White Hall, New York (21 Mt St)
24. Place of birth Avonport, Kings County, Nova Scotia
25. Name of father Rev Robert Freeman Allen
26. Maiden name of mother Jessie Eldora Hopkins
27. Birthplace Father Pictou County Mother Annapolis County
28. Date of marriage December 27 1947 29. By license or banns License 30. License number 90256
32. Signature of
Groom John Ansley Reagh
Bride Viola Belle Balch
33. Signatures of Witnesses
Name Audrey Miles
Address Armview Apartments, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Name E P Miles
Address Halifax Nova Scotia
I certify the above stated particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Officiating Clergyman A E Pentz
Address 55 Robie Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Religious denomination United Church of Canada
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