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Weddings, 1877

13 stories in Sydney's papers

A Coptic Wedding

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 March 1877 · page 4

MISS Jane Whately, daughter of the late Archbishop Whately, being on a visit to her sister at Cairo, has sent to the Record the following description of a Coptic wedding:— "The bride was one of my sister's old pupils, the daughter…

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A Wedding Extraordinary

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 April 1877 · page 6

AN interesting account is given by a Philadelphian newspaper of a wedding which took place on the evening of the 25th of January in the ring of the new National Circus in that city. The bride and…

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Poetry. the Worn Wedding-ring

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 5 May 1877 · page 2

Your wedding-ring wears thin, dear wife; ah! summers not a few, Since I put it on your finger first, have pass'd o'er me and you…

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The Manufacture of Wedding-rings

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1877 · page 6

THE manufacturers who actually confine themselves to the making of wedding-rings are comparatively few in number. It is an easy-going and a pleasant trade, and so fine are the profits that all transactions are…

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Manufacture of Wedding Rings in Birmingham

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 26 May 1877 · page 6

The manufacturers who actually confine themselves to the making of Wedding-rings are comparatively few in number. It is easy-going and a pleasant trade, and so fine are the profits…

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A Scene at a Wedding

Evening News · Monday 11 June 1877 · page 3

An amusing incident occurred at Stoke Church, Davenport, on Wednesday morning. The Rev. A. Hector de Courcelles, the curate, was officiating at a wedding, and which he asked for the ring it was…

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Etiquette of Weddings

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 June 1877 · page 2

WE are so constantly receiving inquiries respecting the etiquette to be observed at weddings and wedding breakfasts, that a few lines on the subject will, we think, prove acceptable. To commence with the…

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The Trade in Wedding Rings

Evening News · Monday 9 July 1877 · page 2

It is an easy-going and a pleasant trade and [?] fine are the profits that all transactions are strictly for cash only. Birmingham makers supply mostly the wants of the United Kingdom and the British colonies…

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Tale. the Last of the Haddons. [The right of publication in Australia has been purchased by the proprietors of the Sydney Mail.] Chapter Xxv.—wedding—bells

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 July 1877 · page 1

I HAD a motive, which I fancied she did not perceive, in asking Lilian to accompany me on my errand to the Home that morning. It was Arthur Trafford's wdding-day. MRs. Tipper and I had done our best…

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Wedding Presents

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 August 1877 · page 5

EVERY year the question of wedding presents seems to assume greater proportions. Formerly only the near relations of a bride presented her with tokens of affection; now wedding presents are expected, and…

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Ladies' Column. Wedding Presents

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 August 1877 · page 25

EVERT year the question of wedding presents seems to assume greater proportions. Formerly only the near relations of a bride presented her with tokens of affection; now wedding presents are expected, and…

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Mishap to a Wedding Breakfast

Evening News · Tuesday 4 September 1877 · page 2

A few weeks ago there was a fashionable marriage in the most fashionable part of Yass (says the SOUTHERN ARGUS)and the interesting ceremony look place at the fashionable hour of 8 o'clock in the…

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A Golden Wedding

Evening News · Friday 7 December 1877 · page 2

An event of an unusually domestic concern took place in Sydney, on St. Andrews' Day, when Mr. John and Mrs Tyfe, of Kent-street, attained their golden wedding day. They have four daughters and…

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