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Sydney · Weddings

Weddings, 1878

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

Wedding in Low Life

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 February 1878 · page 42

'There was excitement in the Italian colony of Crosby-street yesterday, owing to a wedding. A line of carriages stood in front of 43 and 45 and the adjoining houses, and there were over two…

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Wedding in Low Life

Evening News · Saturday 2 March 1878 · page 5

There was excitement in the Italian colony of I Crosby-street yesterday, owing to a wedding. A line of carriages stood in front of 43 find 45 and the adjoining houses, and there were over two…

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Double Wedding

Evening News · Tuesday 5 March 1878 · page 2

A very pleasant ceremony, no less an event than a double wedding, took place at the Great Synagogue at half past one to-day. It is significant as being the first event of the kind in the new edifice, and it can…

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Ladies' Column. Grand Jewish Wedding in Sydney

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 March 1878 · page 29

FOR several weeks past a grand Jewish wedding, which took place on Tuesday afternoon, has been the subject of conversation among those fair ladies of Sydney who are most interested in these events,—and few are…

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A Double Wedding

Evening News · Wednesday 3 April 1878 · page 2

On Thursday last, at Ilford, near Mudgee, the Rev. Mr. Caldwell had the unusual pleasure of uniting is wedlock two brothers to two [?]ters. The bridegrooms were Merers. George and James N. Phelps…

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The Rosebery-rothschild Wedding

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 May 1878 · page 3

A correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle writes, under data London, March 23, that the grand wedding of the week, of course, has been that of Miss Hannah de Rothschild and the Earl of Rosebery. This is the second…

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Ladies' Column. the Roseberry. Rothschild Wedding

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 May 1878 · page 19

A Correspondent of the San Francisco Chro-nicle writos, under date London, March 23, that the grand wedding of the week, of course, has been that of Miss H[?]ah de Rothschild and…

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Wedding Invitations

Evening News · Tuesday 21 May 1878 · page 3

The Melbourne correspondent of one of the Victorinn up-country papers, says "society in agitated by the rumour that a brilliant marriage is on the tapis, and will take place next week. The bridegroom is the…

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A Golden Wedding

Evening News · Monday 10 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 50 immediate [?]dants of one couple in church to offer thanksgiving to God for allowing…

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Golden Wedding Celebration

Evening News · Saturday 15 June 1878 · page 5

Mr. Joseph Hill and his wife, Mrs. Esther Hill, a venerable and respected counts living in the Sydney suburb of Darlington had their golden wedding celebration on the 2nd June instant. A silver…

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A Golden Wedding. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 July 1878 · page 17

Sir,—In looking over last Saturday's TOWN AND COUNTRY, I saw a paragraph relating to a golden wedding celebration. I wish them much joy; but we think we can beat them inmost cases. Mrs. Roffe…

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A Maori Wedding Breakfast

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 13 July 1878 · page 8

THE remnant of the original occupants of the islands of New Zealand, though, still retaining many of the barbarous habits of their ancestors, have yet become greatly civilised since they were first visited by Capt. Abel…

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Royal Silver Weddings

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 July 1878 · page 28

A CORRESPONDENT, writing from Berlin, says: —There will be certainly no lack of royal festivities in the course of the next six months, for no less than five silver marriages, besides a golden wedding, will be…

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Gold and Silver Weddings

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 July 1878 · page 130

THE five silver weddings and the one gulden ditto that are to be celebrate! during the present year at different Europe. Courts are as follows:—The golden wedding (fifty years of married life) is that of Duke Maximilian of…

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A French Wedding Episode

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 July 1878 · page 150

Two wedding couples presented themselyes at the Mairie in a suburb of Faria, to carry out the civil portion of their marriage contract They ranged themselves on opposite sides of the Mayor' official throne, and faced one another…

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An Interesting Wedding

Evening News · Friday 9 August 1878 · page 3

A STRIKING SCENE AT THE CHURCH. The marriage of Baron Blane, the Italian Minister, New York, to Miss Dolores Natica Terry, has just been celebrated with annual pomp and ceremony…

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An Interesting Wedding. a Striking Scene at the Church

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 28

THE marriage of Baron Blane, the Italian Minister, New York, to Miss Dolores Natica Terry, has just been celebrated with unusual pomp and ceremony, at St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church. The…

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The Vice-Regal Wedding

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 252

The great subject of conversation in fashionable circles, last week, was, of course, the marriage of Mr. Finlay and Miss Robinson. Even one in Sydney who was any one either saw the marriage or presented congratulations on the…

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Mrs. Gamp on a Recent Wedding in 'igh Life

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 252

Yes, I wortheor, Betsy, as you might ha' knowed without asting, being as I am a royal subject of her Gracious Majesty, and theerfor' of her Majesty's presentative, Sir Herkuls Robinson; and I see the whole thing, as I may…

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History of a Wedding

Sydney Punch · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 4

1.The Reporter in the crowd. 2.The Reporter falls back upon the worthy Curate, and is taken in through the catacombs. 3.The Bridegroom slips in unobserved…

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