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Hunter Valley · Weddings

Weddings, 1886

10 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

A Fighting Wedding

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1886 · page 13

An extraordinary finale to a wedding has been the subject of a special magisterial inquiry at Clonmel. Four men were prosecuted at the instance of the Crown for having been members of a…

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Jangled Wedding Bells. a Romance of Bachelor Life in Saucelito. Chapter I.

Singleton Argus · Saturday 3 April 1886 · page 2

"Is she good-looking George?" "Remarkably so Fred." " And they were two hours together?" "Yes, and he squeezed her land—trust…

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Mishap to a Wedding Party

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 28 April 1886 · page 2

A SAD accident occurred on Thursday at Heidelberg, near Melbourne, to a wedding party. In the morning a Mr J. Topping was married at St Peter's…

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Princess Beatrice's Wedding

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 28 April 1886 · page 1

A LONDON correspondent writes:— I am enabled to announce that no application will be made to Parliament for a vote in payment (or part payment) of the…

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Forgot his Wedding Day

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 22 May 1886 · page 11

On Friday night, as the six o'clock train for Newmilns was leaving the station at Kilmarnock says the Glasgow Mail an elderly woman stepped into a third-class compartment,…

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A Ghost at a Wedding

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 June 1886 · page 2

AN unusual scene (says a Scotch paper) [?] place at a wedding being celebrated the other evening in a quiet burgh on the southern confines of Angus. The bridegroom was a…

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A Wedding Prevented

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 June 1886 · page 4

JAMES YOUNG, 23, a private in the 7th Royal Fusiliers, and Susan Duke, 21, laundress, 8, St. Leonard's Place, South Horasley, were charged with being…

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Throwing Rice at Weddings

Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 July 1886 · page 1

THE danger of the custom of throwing rice at weddings has just been exemplified. The vicar of St. James the Less, Bathnal Green. has for many years solemised the ceremony…

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Terrible Scene at a Wedding

Singleton Argus · Saturday 17 July 1886 · page 2

A LETTER just received from some Cornish minors employed at the Eureka Mills Gold Mines, California, narrates horrible occurrence at the celebration of…

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A Singular Wedding

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 11 November 1886 · page 8

Christ Church, Liversedge, was the scene of a very extraordinary wedding the other day, and several hundred people, attracted by the novelty of the event, assembled in the church and along…

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