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Weddings, 1881

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

Fashionable Wedding

Evening News · Friday 21 January 1881 · page 2

One of the most fashionable weddings which has taken place for some time in Sydney was celebrated yesterday, at St. John's Church, Darlinghurst, The happy couple were Mr. George Lee Lord, of…

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Ladies' Column, Odds and Ends. Fashionable Wedding

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 February 1881 · page 28

A BALLARAT friend sondo me the following account of a fashionable wedding between a New South Wales gentleman and a lady from the mining township just named. The news came too late for…

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A Fatal Wedding Feast

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 February 1881 · page 7

Particulars have been received of a terrible poisoning case in Tennessee. The marriage of Mr. Joel Hembree and Miss Jane Dale, of Roane county, drew together a large company of their friends and relatives, who belong to the…

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A Fatal Wedding Feast

Evening News · Friday 11 February 1881 · page 3

PARTICULARS have been received (says the EUROPEAN MAIL) of a terrible poisoning case in Tennessee. The marriage of Mr. Joel Hembree-and Miss Jane Dale, of Roane County, drew…

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Fashionable Wedding. NEWCASTLE

Evening News · Tuesday 15 February 1881 · page 2

A fashionable wedding took place to-day at the Church of England Cathedral. A daughter of Captain Wearherill, of the Marine Board, was married to Mr. Prentice of West Maitland…

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A Fatal Wedding Feast

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 February 1881 · page 41

Particulars have been received (says the EUROPEAN MAIL) of a terrible poisoning case in Tennessee. The marriage of Mr. Joel Hembree and Miss Jane Dale, of Roane County, drew…

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Royal Wedding. Berlin, Feb. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1881 · page 5

The marriage of Prince Frederick William Victor Albert, of Prussia, with Princess Victoria, of Holstein-Augustenberg, was celebrated to-day with great pomp and ceremony…

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Ladies' Column. Odds and Ends. Choral Wedding at St. John's

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 March 1881 · page 28

A FASHIONABLE crowd filled the pows in the middle aisle of St. John's, Darlinghurst, last Wednesday afternoon, to view the wedding ceremony between Miss Alico Emily, second daughter of Mr. Williams…

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A Jewish Wedding

Evening News · Thursday 17 March 1881 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Yesterday the Hebraic circles of Sydney society were astir, the general object of interest being the marriage of Miss Dinah Levey, fourth daughter of Mr. Montague Levy, of Wynyard-square, with Mr…

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The Royal Wedding at Berlin. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Berlin, March 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 April 1881 · page 7

The German capital has, during the last few weeks, been alive with excitement, for the inhabitants as well as the authorities were anxious to give the warmest reception to the bride of Prince William, destined to be…

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The Royal Wedding at Berlin. MARCH 1

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 April 1881 · page 656

The German capital has, during the last few weeks, been alive with excitement, for the inhabitants as well as the authorities were anxious to give the warmest reception to the bride of Prince William, destined to be…

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A Double Wedding

Evening News · Friday 6 May 1881 · page 3

On Wednesday last a doable wedding took place at Ryde, and the event occasioned quite an agreeable sensation in the quiet neighbourhood. The brides were sisters—Miss Emily and Miss Florence Farnell,…

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Lord Brackenbury: a Novel. [The right of publication in Australasia his been purchased by the proprietors of the Sydney Mail.] Chapter Lviii.— Wedding Bells

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 May 1881 · page 774

"Did I not prophesy that my dearest Winifred would be Lady Brackenbury, after all ? My child, I knew it as well as if I bad peeped into the Book of the Future!" "How could you know what I did not know myself'…

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Ladies' Page. Odds and Ends. the Last Fashion for Weddings

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 June 1881 · page 28

THE latest idea in connection with weddings is, that the bridesmaids instead of waiting in the porch, as is usually the custom, go at once to the yestry to await the bride, and upon her arrival at the church door…

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A Fashionable Wedding. MELBOURNE

Evening News · Friday 24 June 1881 · page 2

At the marriage of Mr. Norman Wilson (brother of Mr. Hector Wilson) to Dr. Gray's daughter the London fashion was introduced into Melbourne for the first time of little boys in fancy dresses, as…

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Wedding Fashions

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 6 August 1881 · page 7

Some years ago all brides wept. It was the correct thing. We had not quite emerged from the sentimental era. Mrs. Heman's poetry was much read, and we all know how…

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A Diamond Wedding

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 August 1881 · page 3

In Sandhurst, Victoria, there is a venerable couple who have been married 60 years, and both husband and wife are still in robust health. The Bendigo Independent says that they intend…

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A Romantic Wedding

Evening News · Saturday 27 August 1881 · page 5

The famous matrimonial suit of Imecourt v. Musurus, more romantic in details than many a tale of the troubadours, has just been before the Parisian Courts. It may be remembered that…

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Fiction. Lucy Ross's Sacrifice. Chap. Xv.—the Wedding at Glasslough Mills

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 446

On a former occasion, when the land sales were the cause of the attraction, the select and frowning hostelry of Middleton was filled with gentlemen of pastoral habits and appearance. On the eve of the marriage of Mr. Bogues,…

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