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Sydney · Weddings

Weddings, 1894

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Fashionable Wedding

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1894 · page 860

Viscount Deerhurst, who will be remembered by many as sometime one of the staff of his Excellency the Governor of Victoria, was, on the 10th March, married to Miss Virginia Bonynge, daughter of Mr…

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Scene at a Wedding

Nepean Times · Saturday 5 May 1894 · page 6

A somewhat unusual incident occurred at a wedding in a metropolitan church a few days since, which had the effect of casting a gloom, besides a lot of flour,…

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Fashionable Wedding

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 5 May 1894 · page 18

ALTHOUGH the marriage of Mr. Lionel Bridge, fourth son of Mr. John Bridge (a gentleman well known is the commercial circles of this colony), and Miss Annie Stanley, daughter of Mr…

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A Royal Wedding. Visit of the Queen. London, May 4

The Australian Star · Saturday 5 May 1894 · page 5

It is rumored that her Majesty the Queen will go to St. Petersburg in order to attend the wedding of the Grand Duke Nicholas, Czarewitch of…

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Broken Links Now First Publisher a Love Story. Chapter Vii.--wedding Bells

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 May 1894 · page 12

The days which followed left an macnold impression upon Janet's mind, a kind of glittering confusion through which she seemed passing into a new state of being…

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Wedding of Mr. Asquith

Evening News · Friday 11 May 1894 · page 5

London, May 10.—The marriage of the Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, the Home Secretary, to Miss Emma Alice Margaret Tennant (Miss "Margot" Tennant…

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Dress Reform. "Rational" Garb in America and New Zealand. a Knickerbocker Wedding

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 May 1894 · page 5

The "emancipation of woman" goes on apace in the United Stales, particularly among the chosen of Boston, who pride themselves on being a shade too smart…

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A Cheap Wedding

Nepean Times · Saturday 12 May 1894 · page 2

A well-known suburban clergyman, who ia accredited with much of the canniness for which people from "North o' the Tweed" are noted, was the victim of an experience…

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Wedding at Tenterfield

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 May 1894 · page 19

A QUIET wedding took place on Monday, April 30th, when Miss Teresa D'Arcy, second daughter or the late Mr. W. D'Arcy, of Tenterfield, was married to Mr. N. B. Connolly, manager of Erro…

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The Czarewitch's HetrothaL the Wedding Dat Fixed

Evening News · Monday 14 May 1894 · page 4

LONDON, May 18.—The marriage of the Grand Duke Nicholas, Czarewitch of Russia, with Princess Alix Victoria of Hesse (youngest daughter of the Princess Alice)…

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A Cowardly Highwayman. Sticks Up a Woman-takes Her Money and Wedding Ring

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 May 1894 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday. --A married woman named Margaret King, residing at Hawthorn, has reported to the police that a young man stuck her upon Saturday night,…

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Woman's Items. Notes on Wedding Gowns

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 May 1894 · page 21

AN exquisite bridal gown recently shown to me Was of ivory satin and velvet, the satin train bordered wish a band of velvet and an applique of silver. The tight fitting bodice bad full basques…

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The Wedding-ring Finger

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1894 · page 1015

Why is the wedding-ring to be worn on the fourth finger of the left hand? The answer is to be found in old missals, which show that it was believed that a vein runs from this finger to the heart. "This,…

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Toongabbie. Wedding Bells

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 19 May 1894 · page 4

The marriage of the young lady of Baulkham Hills, mentioned in a late issue, was celebrated at the residence of the bride’s parents, the happy couple looking their…

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A Horsey Wedding

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 May 1894 · page 34

A wedding which, for distinctive sporting character and downright "horsiness," beats-the reoord has just taken place near the town of Stockbridge, England, where Tom: Cannou, the famous jockey, has his…

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Wedding Bells

Nepean Times · Saturday 26 May 1894 · page 4

We clip the following from the "Iliawarra Mercury" of the 12th inst,:—On Wednesday, May 9th, Mr. P. T. Doyle (eldest son of Mr. T. Doyle, of Penrith), of the Advance Stores, Wollongong, was…

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Killed Going to a Wedding

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 May 1894 · page 16

THE Tambar Springs correspondent of the land Mercury writes :- As the spread last Wednesday afternoon announcing the almost sudden death of Mr. James O'Rourke, there was a general surprise and…

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Life in London and Thereabout. Cheonioled by Henry W. Lucy. the Duke of Edinburgh's Annuity—the Coburg Wedding—theatrical Peofits. Westmenster, April, 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 May 1894 · page 4

It is a gruesome coincidence that yesterday the wedding bells were ringing at Coburg, on the joyful occasion of the marriage of the Duke's daughter with her cousin, the Grand Duke of…

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Weddings

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 May 1894 · page 1053

The marriage of Miss Eleanor Marian Whelan-Boyle, eldest daughter of the late R. Whelan-Boyle, Esq., F.R.S.L., London (a scion of the house of Cork and Orrery, of which the ninth Earl of Cork…

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Interrupting a Wedding

Evening News · Saturday 2 June 1894 · page 5

At Dunmow, Essex (L.), pariSh church recently the wedding of a coal porter with a young woman, formerly employed at the vicarage, was interrupted in a curious manner. The…

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