A Pugwash marriage …….
EDWARD MORTIMER
MARGARET ANNE MACKENZIE
married at Pugwash, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia on January 23, 1861
Extract from the Inverness Courier, Thursday March 7, 1861, at page 8
At Pictou, Nova Scotia, B.N. America, on the 23d January, by the Rev. Thomas Tallach, A.M., of St Matthews’s Church,
Pugwash, brother-in-law of the bridegroom, EDWARD MORTIMER, Esq., of Ceylon, Planter, to MARGARET ANNE, only
daughter of Roderick Mackenzie, Esq., Merchant, Pictou.
A similar report appears in the Greenock Advertiser of Saturday March 9, 1861. (Possibility of a printing or transcription error – 23rd or 22nd Jan.)
Both newspapers can be accessed at British Newspaper Archives http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk -- also available on http://www.findmypast.co.uk
Hope this helps someone.
(Apologies for cross-posting/re-posting)
Kind regards
Dave Mitchell
Cape Town
South Africa
Researching Mitchell in Pugwash/Wallace, Cumberland County, and Merigomish/New Glasgow, Pictou County