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Illawarra · Weddings

Weddings, 1889

9 stories in Illawarra's papers

Preparation for the Emperor of China's Wedding. Thursday Island

Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 2

Great preparations are being made for the approaching wedding of the Emperor of China. Fifty-two thousand lanterns and lamps, together with 24,000 pieces of…

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Out of Eden. Chapter Xlv. the Eve of the Wedding

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 30 April 1889 · page 4

WHEN we love a person very much, or are much indebted to anyone, to refuse to accede to an expressed wish of theirs is at best very painful. Robert had put Mary in this…

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Out of Eden. Chapter Xlv. the Eve of the Wedding

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 2 May 1889 · page 4

After this Mary took the sisters to their room, and Florence presented Mary with a breakfast sot of valuable china, and Bessie brought her little offering too. Bessie did not…

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Out of Eden. Chapter Xlvi. the Wedding

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 4 May 1889 · page 4

Spring crept over the chilled earth, and smiled her tender smile of welcome and hope to greet Mary on her wedding day. When the bride awoke the sun was shining on the distant…

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Out of Eden. Chapter XLVI—Continued. the Wedding

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 7 May 1889 · page 4

It was an immense relief to her when Mr. Larkins arrived to lunch, and she had some one lively to talk to. Larkins was quite agreeable to talk to Bessie, and the two made…

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A Wedding Present

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 5 July 1889 · page 2

It afforded us much pleasure to be present at a little ceremony on Tuesday evening to testify our esteem and to wish health and prosperity to Mr. Robert Finlayson,…

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Wedding

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 15 October 1889 · page 2

AMIDST the old saws and wise savings of our grandmothers and great grandmothers days few have been so tenaciously remembered and implicitly believed in by their…

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Fashionable Wedding

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 13 December 1889 · page 2

THE residence of G. L. Fuller, Esq., of Dunmore, was the scene of great activity and festivity on Wednesday last, the cause for which was the waiting in the bonds of…

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Fashionable Wedding

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 20 December 1889 · page 2

A WEEK ago we chronicled the fact that Miss Ada Annie Fuller and Mr. William Webb Baird had been united in the bounds of matrimony. At that time a promise was…

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