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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Weddings

Weddings, 1878

7 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers

Golden Wedding

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 2

ON January 7 the rare event of a golden wedding was celebrated at the house of. Mr. George Skipworth, Green's Plains West. Mr. G. Skip,…

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An Auspicious Wedding

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 February 1878 · page 2

YESTERDAY was a day which will be long remembered by those who made it their business and pleasure to be present in Christ Church to witness the wedding ceremony which united in…

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A Novel Wedding Ovation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 March 1878 · page 2

A GENTLEMAN, occupying high position in the civil service of this colony, was married to a charming young lady the other day, on a station on the Murrumbidgee, and the wedding couple…

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A Golden Wedding

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 June 1878 · page 3

IT is not often the journalist's privilege to witness such an event as took place in Geelong on Tuesday—to see fifty immediate descendants of one couple in…

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Vice-Regal Wedding

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 August 1878 · page 2

THE marriage of Miss Robinson, daughter of his Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of the colony, with Mr. Alexander Kirkman Finlay, was solemnized in the presence of a large…

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Maori Wedding

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 September 1878 · page 2

GREAT festivities were held at the Rup[?] pa, Governor's Bay, yesterday, in tonor of the marriage of George Patains Karstiti with Harirota Pohata. The bridegroom is a son…

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An Interesting Wedding Tour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 December 1878 · page 2

JUDGE William Thomas, of Jacksonville, Illinois, ninty-two years of age, is now on his wedding tour, having fixed his youthful affections upon a charming girl of…

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