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Murray · Weddings

Weddings, 1897

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Peculiar Welsh Weddings

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 January 1897 · page 4

A wedding, as it was customarily arranged in Wales some forty years ago, was an interesting affair. In those days, as soon as the young people had made up their own…

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Ladies’ Column. Another Wedding on Wheels

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 2

The newest form of bridal is the Bicycle Wedding, such as was recently celebrated at Trenton, Mew Jersey, U.S.A. The happy pair were married in cycling costume,…

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Ladies' Column. Another Wedding on Wheels

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 20 January 1897 · page 2

The newest form of bridal is the Bicycle Wedding such as was recently celebrated at Trenton, Mew Jersey, U.S.A The happy pair were married in cycling costume,…

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Ladies Column. Wedding Gown for a Widow

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 2

Velvet at the present moment is the material that widows mostly affect on their remarriage—grey, heliotrope, and dark blue being the favourite colours. The dresses are…

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Weddings. Oobham—foster

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 February 1897 · page 12

A marriage of much interest in the social circles of Ballarat, was celebrated on Thursday, 28th January, at the Cathedral Church, Ballarat, between Mr. Walter Synnot Cooham…

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Wedding Superstitions

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 February 1897 · page 13

The bride who finds a spider on her wedding-dress may consider herself blessed. The bride who dreams of fairies the night before her marriage will be thrice blessed…

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Ladies Column. Wedding Gown for a Widow

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 17 February 1897 · page 2

Valv[?] at the present moment is the ma[?] that widows mostly affect on their remarriage—grey, heliotrope, and dark blue bring the favourite colours. The dress are…

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A Corowa Wedding

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 February 1897 · page 29

The Wahgunyah News says:—"On Wednesday morning a very quiet but interesting wedding was solemnised by the Rev. Steele, of Corowa, when Mr. John…

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Wedding

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 26 February 1897 · page 2

A quiet wedding was .celebrated yesterday, the contracting parties being : Mr . David Beattie, farmer of Warmatta, end Miss Susie Ethel Jones, of Berrigan The ceremony…

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Is the Wedding Ring Going?

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 12

For two thousand years, ever since the Romans plighted their troth with a tiny iron band, the magic circlet has kept its hold upon the world (remarks a London writer)…

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A Riverina Wedding

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 28

A Riverina wedding had a rather lively termination on Friday last, reports the Finley Free Press. The bride was young aud very handsome in her wedding finery ;…

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A Coming Wedding

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 29

Society is just now (says a Sydney correspondent) a little exercised over the approaching marriage of the Governor's daughter with Captain Sloane Ferguson…

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A Cycle Wedding in London

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 4

Londoners on the morning of 22nd February had an opportunity of witnessing a totally novel tight. It he been left to a party of enterprising…

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Wedding Bells

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 14 April 1897 · page 2

The marriage of Mr. H. L. Raceke, late bookkeeper on Yanga station, and Miss Annie Hall, second daughter of the late William Hall, of B dranald, took place at…

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The Vice-regal Wedding

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 23 April 1897 · page 3

Tho wedding of the Hon. Margaret Brand, eldest daughter of the Governor, Lord Hampden, with Captain Algernon Ferguson, A.D.C., the Second Life Guards, of…

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Fashionable Wedding

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 April 1897 · page 20

The marriage of the Hon. Margaret Brand, oldest daughter of Lord Hampden, with Captain Ferguson, A.D.C., was celebrated on Wednesday afternoon at St. Andrew's…

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The Vice-regal, Wedding. Capt. Ferguson and Hon. M. Brand

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Saturday 24 April 1897 · page 3

The Vice-regal wedding, in which the contracting parties were Caplai[?] Ferguson and Hon Margaret Brand, took place at St. Andrew's Cathadral in Sydney on…

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The Vice-regal Wedding. a Brilliant Spectacle

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 24 April 1897 · page 2

The marriage of the Hon. Margaret Brand, eldest daughter of His Excellency the Governor, to Captain Algernon Ferguson, of the 2nd Life Guards, sad A.D.C. to Lord Hampden, was celebrated on…

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Wedding at Wahgunyah. Armour--howard

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 27 April 1897 · page 3

A VERY quiet wedding took place at Wahgunyah on Wednesday at the residence of the bride's parents, the contracting parties being Mr. Thomas H. Armour,…

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Wedding at Harefield

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 April 1897 · page 28

A very pretty wedding took place at "Gerilgamboth," Harefield, the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. Patterson, on 14th inst, the parties being Miss Fanny Hill…

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