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Weddings, 1886

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

Uncle Nahum's Wedding

Globe · Friday 8 January 1886 · page 7

Uncle Nahum Nixon was reading the paper in his back parlour. "If you please, Mr. Nixon," said the trim little maid-servant, "Mr. Marmaduke…

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A Wedding Day

Globe · Thursday 14 January 1886 · page 2

I was married to-day. All the books I have ever read finished with the marriage of the heroine, so I suppose my life ought to be over now. But it seems to me as if…

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A Curious Wedding Ceremony

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1886 · page 178

A wedding of an interesting and unusual character took place recently at the Greek Church, Moscow-road, Bays-water, between two members of the well-known Ralli family. A large gathering of notables assembled to welcome…

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Wedding Breakfast Table Decoration

Globe · Tuesday 26 January 1886 · page 2

A pretty idea for the decoration of a wedding breakfast table is to lay a strip of mirror through the centre, bordered on both sides by white flowers. The wedding…

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Their Golden Wedding

Evening News · Saturday 30 January 1886 · page 7

With heart to bear and brain to win What matter fortune tarried? Faith, hope and love are strong in youth And so they married…

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Wedding Gifts

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1886 · page 230

"The presents were numerous and costly." Who has not read this announcement in descriptions of move or less aristocratic marriages, or the following : "FOR EXCHANGE."…

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A Romantic Wedding

Globe · Monday 15 February 1886 · page 3

Seldom, if ever, has a wedding taken place under more difficult and more romantic circumstances (writes the St. James' Gazette of December 3) than one…

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An Unfinished Wedding

Globe · Monday 22 February 1886 · page 2

Why did Lord Verriner wander in strange and tropical climes, explore Japan and Timbuctoo, and attempt to cross the Himalayas? The noble Earl…

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Fashionable Wedding

Evening News · Wednesday 24 February 1886 · page 3

A fashionable wedding took place in St. Andrew's Cathedral on Tuesday afternoon, the happy pair being Miss V. E. Consett Stephen, of "Cintra," Potts's Point, Sydney, granddaughter of Sir Alfred…

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Fashionable Wedding

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 February 1886 · page 451

St. Andrew's Cathedral was selected for the solemnisation of the marriage between Miss Virginia Eleanor Consett, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Montagu Consett Stephen, of Sydney, and Thomas…

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Shocking Termination to a Wedding

Evening News · Tuesday 9 March 1886 · page 3

A wedding party from Bradford, Yorkshire, lately came to a tragic termination in Boar-lane, the busiest thoroughfare in Leeds. The party, who were being driven is a coach by Joseph Clayton, who is…

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The Wedding Present

Globe · Thursday 11 March 1886 · page 5

The wedding guests had departed, and the happy couple were making ready to go to the depot, when the newly made father-in-law approached the newly-made…

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Miss Gladstone's Wedding

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 March 1886 · page 5

Miss Mary Gladstone, daughter of Mr. Gladstone, was married on February 2 to the Rev. Harry Drew, of Hawarden. A London cablegram to the New York Herald says: -- "The ceremony…

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Wedding at the Synagogue

Globe · Wednesday 17 March 1886 · page 5

At two o'clock yesterday afternoon the marriage of Miss Mabel L. Cohen, daughter of Mr. Fred cohen, of the firm of Nathan, Cohen and Co. of Sydney, with…

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Scene at a Wedding. Dying in the Arms of His Bride

Evening News · Monday 26 April 1886 · page 5

During the celebration of his wedding festivities, Mr. Patrick Walsh, a farmer and mill owner, of i Holly brook, near Skibbereen, was taken suddenly ill, I and died in the arms of his bride…

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His Wedding Night in Gaol

Evening News · Thursday 20 May 1886 · page 3

Josiah Quincy Mann, living in Scituate, Mass., went to Boston and was married to a South End belle at the home of the bride's parents. A supper followed and Mr. Mann drank a great deal of wine. Late in…

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A Spanish Royal Wedding

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 31 May 1886 · page 5

The marriage ceremonial of royalties is (saysan American paper) always interesting, and the marriage of the Infanta Dona Eulalic of Spam to her cousin, the Infante Don Antonio, son of the Duke of Montponsier, at the Chapel…

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For a Tin Wedding

Globe · Monday 7 June 1886 · page 2

Though far away on your festal day, Before I shall step in At least in song, to join the throng [?]ng its gifts on tin…

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A Silver Wedding

Nepean Times · Saturday 26 June 1886 · page 2

A very plensant evening was spent at Ald. George Besley's on Thursday last Mr. and Mrs, Besley, who had been married twenty live years on that day, invited a number of old friends to celebrate their…

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A Strange Wedding

Nepean Times · Saturday 3 July 1886 · page 4

At the gaining table the Duke of Richmond incurred a debt of honor to Lord Cadogau, which he was unable to pay, and it was agreed that his son, a lad of fifteen,…

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