Boston Marriage Register Entry for Donald G McKinnon and Emma J Conrad
Boston marriage register entry recording Donald G. McKinnon, a 29-year-old carpenter born in Prince Edward Island, and Emma J. Conrad, a 30-year-old housekeeper born in Nova Scotia, married in Boston on 29 August 1894. The entry names Donald's parents as Donald and Elizabeth and Emma's parents as Jacob Conrad and Chloe Bruce.
What this record says
Record summary
What it says
Boston marriage register entry recording Donald G. McKinnon, a 29-year-old carpenter born in Prince Edward Island, and Emma J. Conrad, a 30-year-old housekeeper born in Nova Scotia, married in Boston on 29 August 1894. The entry names Donald's parents as Donald and Elizabeth and Emma's parents as Jacob Conrad and Chloe Bruce.
Why it matters
It supports 1 public timeline moment and connects to 2 named people or possibilities.
Manual transcription created from the cleaned repository PDF after automatic PDF text extraction failed.
The page contains multiple marriage entries; only the McKinnon/Conrad entry was transcribed.
The bride mother's maiden name appears to read Bruce.
This register entry corrects and corroborates the party names in source-marriage-record-donald-g-mckinnon-emma-j-conrad-1894, which had previously been misread from a lower-contrast certificate image.
Boston marriage register page
Manual transcription of the relevant entry on the register page:
Register heading: Marriages Registered in the City of Boston for the Year 1894
Volume: 444
Page: 173
Relevant entry:
- Date and place of marriage: 29 August 1894
- Date of record: 31 August 1894
- Groom: Donald G. McKinnon
- Bride: Emma J. Conrad
- Residence of each at time of marriage: Boston
- Groom age: 29
- Bride age: 30
- Groom occupation: Carpenter
- Bride occupation: Housekeeper
- Groom place of birth: Pr. Edw. Isld.
- Bride place of birth: Nova Scotia
- Groom parents: Donald and Elizabeth
- Bride parents: Jacob and Chloe Bruce
- Groom marriage order: First
- Bride marriage order: Second
- Person by whom married: Rev. John Hood, Boston
Notes:
- Manual transcription created from the cleaned repository PDF after automatic PDF text extraction failed.
- The page contains multiple marriage entries; only the McKinnon/Conrad entry is transcribed here.
- The bride mother's maiden name appears to read Bruce.
- This register entry independently corroborates the Boston marriage certificate preserved as source-marriage-record-for-donald-kiviniemi-and-elmiina-rivard-1894, whose party names were corrected during this ingest.
Place
Where this record belongs
county
Suffolk
state
Massachusetts
country
USA
place
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Details
Record details
register title
Marriages Registered in the City of Boston
register year
1894
volume
444
page number
173
relevant entry
Donald G. McKinnon and Emma J. Conrad
pages
1
Notes
Research notes
Generated from Transcript-28.pdf on 22 April 2026.
Distinct FamilySearch image group from the Boston city registrar certificate for the same marriage; the two artifacts independently corroborate the 29 August 1894 McKinnon/Conrad marriage.
PlaceBoston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
Citation
Where the record came from
Boston Marriage Register Entry for Donald G McKinnon and Emma J Conrad; FamilySearch; Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States records; image group 004325880; image 179 of 572; Massachusetts. State Archives; accessed 10 April 2026.
