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Weddings, 1874

24 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2

Tales. Jessie Trim. [The right of publication has been purchased by the proprietors of the Sydney Mail.] CHAPTER I. My Grandmother's Wedding

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1874 · page 161

As my earliest remembrances are associated with my grandmother's wedding, it takes natural precedence here of all other matter. I was not there, of course, but I seem to see it through a mist, and I have a…

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A Wedding Present to the Chinese Emperor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 25

THE project of a wadding gift to the Emperor of China, to take the form of a short railway, complete with carriages andloconotives, has the Pall Mall Gazette observes) been finally set at rest, in the only way which…

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Tragedy at a Wedding

Evening News · Saturday 28 March 1874 · page 3

WHILE preparations were being made for the nuptials of Richard Botticher and Miss Cora Cronenbold, at the residence of the latter's mother, at the corner of Grand Avenue and…

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Tragedy at a Wedding

Empire · Monday 30 March 1874 · page 4

WHILE preparations were being made for the nuptials of Richard Botticher and Miss Cora Cronenbold, at the residence of the latter's mother, at the corner of Grand Avenue and…

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A Brilliant Wedding

Evening News · Thursday 9 April 1874 · page 3
Also in Empire

NEW YORK, March 6.—One of the most magnificent weddings of the season took place yesterday at the residence of Cyrus W. Field, the bride being his daughter. Miss Grace Field, while the…

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Shocking Occurrence at a Wedding

Evening News · Friday 24 April 1874 · page 3

DR. PAYNE, the coroner for the Duchy' of Lancashire, received information of the sudden death of the clerk of the German Lutheran, Church, situate in the precinct of the Savoy, Strand. The deceased…

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A Happy Honeymoon. the Wedding Tour in the Metropolis. (A Story from Goulburn.)

Sydney Punch · Friday 1 May 1874 · page 3

ELL the tale in dismal numbers, Of that newly-wedded pair, Who their first post-nuptial slumbers…

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A Fashionable Wedding

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 July 1874 · page 12

HAPPENING to be strolling in a fashionable neighbourhood, I observed a number of carriages in front of a fashionable church. The horses attached to these vehicles, and the coachman…

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Society and Personal. Wedding at the Cathedral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 July 1874 · page 91

ON Wednesday afternoon a wedding took place at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, which caused a very considerable amount of interest, not merely in the neighbourhood hut also in the wide and distinguished circle…

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French Weddings in High Life

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 September 1874 · page 25

ONE of the principal social duties of the Marshal President has been since Easter to act as witness at aristocratie weddings, and to propose brides' healths at nuptial banquets. A French marriage in high life has…

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Extraordinary Weddings

Empire · Friday 2 October 1874 · page 3

A NOVEL wedding took place at Accrington recently. The party proceeded to church in extraordinary order, the procession being leaded by the bridegroom's brother on a donkey, decorated with…

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Extraordinary Weddings

Evening News · Saturday 3 October 1874 · page 3

A NOVEL wedding took place at Accrington recently. The party proceeded to church in extraordinary order, the procession being Leaded by the bridegroom's brother on a donkey, decorated with…

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A Wedding Park Drowned

Evening News · Thursday 8 October 1874 · page 3

THE Hungarian papers give the details of an accident by which the bride and bridegroom and seven other persons were drowned while taking a trip on the water on their wedding day. A storm…

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A Wedding Varty Drowned

Empire · Thursday 8 October 1874 · page 4

THE Hungarian papers give the details of an accident by which the bride and bridegroom and seven other persons were drowned while taking a trip on the water on their wedding day. A storm…

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Extraordinary Weddings

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 October 1874 · page 27

A NOVEL wedding took place at Accrington recently. The party proceeded to church in extraordinary order, the procession being headed by the bridegroom's brother on a donkey, decorated with…

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The Wedding of Shon MacLean

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 October 1874 · page 24

At the wedding of Shon MacLean, Twenty pipers together Came in the wind and the rain Playing over the heather;…

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The Wedding of Shon Maclean

Empire · Wednesday 14 October 1874 · page 4

At the wedding of Shon MacLean, Twenty pipers together Came in the wind and the rain Playing over the heather;…

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Etiquette of London Weddings

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 October 1874 · page 507

THERE can be no doubt that a wedding in a country church is often a tar prettier sight than one in the metropolis; still, the convenience of the latter is so infinitely greater that it is becoming yearly more…

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A Wedding Party Drowned

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 October 1874 · page 27

THE Hungarian papers give the details of an accident by which the bride and bridegroom and seven other persons were drowned while taking a trip on the water on their wedding day. A storm…

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