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Weddings, 1870

11 stories in Sydney's papers

Double Wedding in High Life

Evening News · Friday 4 February 1870 · page 3
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Yesterday the old Abbey at Westminister put on its gayest appearance in honour of the double wedding of the Ladies Albertha and Maude Hamilton with the Lords Blandford and Lansdowne. Ehe morning was wet and…

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Double Wedding in High Life

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 February 1870 · page 22

YESTERDAY the old Abbey at Westminister put on its gayest appearance in honour of the double wedding of the Ladies Alberthaand Maude Hamilton with the Lords Blandford and Lansdowne. Ehe morning was wet and…

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(From the London Telegraph.) Bail Court, December 9, (Justice Hannen and a common jury.) Wedding V Hickey

Evening News · Saturday 26 February 1870 · page 3

This was an action for money had and received. Mr. Keane, Q.C., and Mr. Williams were counsel for the plaintiff; Mr. D. Seymour, Q.C., and Mr. Baker Green were counsel for the defendant…

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Oh, Those Wedding Bells; Or, the Story of an Old Fogy

Sydney Mail · Saturday 26 February 1870 · page 11

Jangle jangle-jingle—jingle—jangle-janyle! Confound those bells! If people will be foolish and get married, why, in the name of nonsense, should they announce their foolishness, and inflict the noise…

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Chapter Xxvi.—the Wedding Morning

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 February 1870 · page 20

"Why, where eau that girl he," muttered Mrs. Hayward, as hour after hour passed, and Maud still remained absent. " The artful hussy; when she knows that I am worked out of my life, preparing for her…

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A Slip between the Cup and the Lip. Love Turned to Hate—a Fashionable Wedding That Did Not Come Off

Evening News · Monday 20 June 1870 · page 4

A YOUNG lady who has been staying the past few weeks with the family of Gov. Randolph, at Morristown, N.J., says the New York Times, was attacked recently by a young man from Brooklyn, who made…

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Throwing the Wedding-Shoe

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 September 1870 · page 21

IN "The Wedding Day in all Ages and Countries," Mr. Edward J. Wood thus discourses anent a popular marriage custom:- "The brother of a childless man was bound to marry…

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Throwing the Wedding Shoe

Evening News · Tuesday 6 September 1870 · page 3

IS "The Wedding Day in all Ages and Countries," Mr. Edward J. Wood thus discourses anent a popular marriage custom:- "The brother of a childless nan was bound to marry…

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A Wedding

Evening News · Friday 9 September 1870 · page 3

The bride turned a little pale, and then a little flashed and at last had just the right quantity of bright, becoming colour, and almost shed a tear, but not quite, for a smile came instead and chased it away. The…

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A Wedding

Empire · Tuesday 13 September 1870 · page 3

THE bride turned a little pale, and then a little flusked and at last had just the right quantity of bright, becoming colour, and almost shed a tear, but not quite, for a smile came instead and chased it anray. The…

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