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Hunter Valley · Weddings

Weddings, 1878

7 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Sketcher. a Wedding

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 23 February 1878 · page 2

AT Iriah country weddings of the lower orders, priest is paid by voluntary contribution of the wedding guests. The marriage is generally celebrated in the…

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Californian Mail Extracts a Wedding Serenade. (New York Times.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 August 1878 · page 2

In the country town of the West it is thought a courteous and necessary thing to serenade every newly-married pair. It has been asserted that this custom has descended from the ancient Greeks, and…

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The Wedding Ring. Resons for Using the Wedding. Ring in the Marriage Ceremony

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 5 October 1878 · page 4

1., As by turning a ring for ever no end can be found, so the friendship cemented by marriage union should be endless and prepetual not even brokes…

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Wedding Gifts

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 9 October 1878 · page 1

WEDDING presents, now so common in the first stage of matrimony, have come down from the fendal system. In almost alt Paris of the civilised world such things…

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Fashionable Wedding at Guestling

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 26 October 1878 · page 3

THE village of Guesting presented unusual signs of animation on Wednesday August 14, on the occasion of the marriage of Miss Upjohn, daughter of…

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FICTION. (From English, American, and other Period[?]) His Wife's Judgement. Chapter Xvii. Trying on the Wedding Ring

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 2 November 1878 · page 13

The wight before her wedding day 1" Lenore had aaid the words over and over again to herself, [?]able to believe or realise them. The summer Was waning fast; the rose leaves were falling; the…

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Wedding in Queensland High Life

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 December 1878 · page 3

A "wedding in high life" was celebrated in this town on the 18th November (says the Queensland Times), being that of Lord Henry Phipps, third son of the Marquis of…

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