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Sydney · Weddings

Weddings, 1880

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

The Silver Wedding

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 January 1880 · page 28

COME, wife, sit here, and we'll rest awhile Till the merry dance is o'er; Our silver wedding has made me feel As if youth were mine once more…

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The Silver Wedding

Evening News · Saturday 17 January 1880 · page 6

COME, wife, sit here and we'll rest a while Till the merry dance is o'er; Our silver wedding has made me feel As if youth were mine once more…

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Fashionable Wedding

Evening News · Wednesday 11 February 1880 · page 2

The great Jewish Synagogue is Elizabeth-street was crowded this afternoon by a large and fushionable assemblage of per[?]one of both sexes who were [?]nxious to witness the imposing ceremony of Mr…

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Ladies' Column. Odds and Ends, Wedding at the Synagogue — the Garden Palace on Saturday Afternoon—dress— Fashionable Colour—the Flower Show

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 February 1880 · page 28

The announcement that a wedding was to take place in the Jewish Synagogue drew a goodly number of spectators on Wednesday afternoon, to witness the ceremony, which it was said wonld take place…

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Select Weddings

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 28 February 1880 · page 7

"Psyche," the mother of six daughters, writes as follows on the subject of afternoon weddings to the Pall Mall Gazette:--When my eldest was married I was new to the thing, and…

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Ladies' Column. Odds and Ends. Ladies' Classes at the School of Arts— Tattooino Royal Noses.—double Wedding —Uncivil Ladies—fashions for Winter— Novelties—the New Lighthouse—a Fashionable Church

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 28

IF the wives and daughters of Sydney are not good housewives and managers, it will not be for want of capable instructresses. Apart from Miss Whiteside's excellent demonstrations of cookery, we have Mrs…

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Wedding Anniversaries

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 March 1880 · page 28

THE various wedding anniversaries, as celebrated of late years, are as follows: That at the expiration of the first year is called the cotton wedding; two years, paper; three years, leather or straw; five…

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The Golden Wedding of a Bishop

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 April 1880 · page 17

The New Zealand CHURCH NEWS gives particulars of the remarkable, celebration of the Golden Wedding of the Primate and Mrs. Harper, which took place at Christchurch. The day began with a…

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Poetry a Wedding

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 12 June 1880 · page 10

THE happy morn has smiling come; Before God's altar man and wife, Hand clasped in hand, all silent stand, One flesh, one life:…

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Fashionable Jewish Wedding

Evening News · Wednesday 7 July 1880 · page 2

There was a fashionable Jewish wedding at £2 p.m. today, at the Synagogue, in Elizabeth-street, which was as usual on such occasions, admission being by ticket. The bride was Miss S[?]rlah Cohen, eldest…

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Fashionable Weddings in Paris

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 July 1880 · page 108

Do any of my readers care to know the ins and the outs of a fashionable marriage in this empire city of elegance and "propriety," for instruction, imitation, or warning, as the case may be?…

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Poetry. a Silver Wedding

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Thursday 5 August 1880 · page 10

" To Dick on our silver wedding, from Harold and Elspeth Grey "— Give me my glasses, nephew. Is that what the letters say? How stiffly these lockets open. Ah, there's a spring, I see…

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Odds and Ends. Wedding at St. Mark's

Evening News · Saturday 7 August 1880 · page 6
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

THE picturesque little church of St. Mark's was very comfortably filled by friends of the contrasting parties on Wednesday last to witness the marriage of Mr. Ernest Backhouse (manager of the…

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Odds and Ends. Fashionable Choral Wedding

Evening News · Saturday 14 August 1880 · page 7

THE much talked of marriage between the pretty Miss Florence (second daughter of Mr. Henry Bell, of Rose Hall, Darlinghurst), and Mr. Kitchen, Lieutenant of marines on board the Wolverine, was…

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Ladies' Column. Odds and Ends. Fashion Able Choral Wedding

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 August 1880 · page 28

THE much talked of marriage between the pretty Miss Florence (second daughter of Mr. Henry Bell, of Rose Hall, Darlinghurts), and Mr. Kitchen, Lieutenant of marines on board the Wolverine, was…

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A Madeira Wedding Ring. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 September 1880 · page 17

Sir,—Some one or two and twenty years ago I was precent in the company of Mr. and Mrs. H—, of Mauritius, and the lady showed her wedding-ring, made exactly as your correspondent "R.C. Hope"…

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A Fashionable Wedding, and Some of Its Features

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 2 October 1880 · page 5

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An Open Verdict. Chapter X[?]i.—a Wedding March

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 October 1880 · page 30

Bella's marriage was to take place on the last day of October. It had been laid down from the beginning that it was to be a very quiet wedding. There was a newness find brightness about that…

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An Open Verdict. Chapter Xlvil.—kenrick's Wedding Day

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 29

The evening after that meeting in the churchyard was a melancholy one for Kenrick. He had counted upon spending it with Beatrix. The settlements were to have been signed at the Water…

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