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Sydney · Weddings

Weddings, 1855

4 stories in Sydney's papers

A Wedding Among the "Friends." (From the Leisure Hour.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 April 1855 · page 3

AMONG the letters which were waiting me on my breakfast table one summer morning, was one particularly distinguished by its great singularity of address. Directed for Jane —, I soon ascribed it to the writer…

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Esther Hammond's Wedding Day

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 14 July 1855 · page 1

A FEW years ago, having made known to those whom it might concern that I warned a footman, there came, amongst others, to offer himself for the situation, a young man, named…

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Esther Hammond's Wedding Day. (Concluded from our Last.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 21 July 1855 · page 1

JACKSON had a son, an oxeellcnt lad, possessing all his father's good qualities, and none of his bad ones. He and young George had been school together, and a friendship had arisen…

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The Golden Wedding-ring

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 25 August 1855 · page 3

WITH a white hand like a lady, And a heart as merry as spring, I am ripe and I am ready For a golden wedding-ring…

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