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Weddings, 1898

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The Fashionable Wedding in Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 August 1898 · page 7

Some account of the wedding of Miss Sylvia Madden, second daughter of Sir John Madden, C.J., Acting-Governor of Victoria, and Lieut. C. Vallange, appeared in our Thursday's issue, but it…

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A Sailor's Wedding

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 August 1898 · page 43

A correspondent sends the following: St. James's Church, Victoria, Vancouver, was the scene of a quiet wedding recently when Captain John Alwen was united in marriage to Miss…

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Weddings

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 August 1898 · page 43

The marriage of Mr. T. W. Heney to Miss Amy Gullett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gullett, of North Cliff, North Sydney, took place at the Willoughby Presbyterian Church on August…

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Another Suburban Bobbery. Stealing the Wedding Presents

Evening News · Wednesday 24 August 1898 · page 4

The busy burglars and other dishonest disturbers of domestic security are still malting their presence felt in the suburbs. The usual number of backyard thefts of such unconsidered trifles as…

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Burglars at Waverley. Wedding Presents Stolen

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 August 1898 · page 6

The premises of Mr. W. Livingstone, a resident of Waverley, were burglariously entered late on Monday afternoon, and articles to the value of £15 or £20 stolen Only a week or two ago Mr. Livingtone entered into the…

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Sad Sequel to a Wedding

Evening News · Saturday 27 August 1898 · page 3

A sad sequel to a wedding is reported from Millbrook, near Southampton. Alter the ceremony the bride became delirious, and though medical aid was summoned, she died without regaining…

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A Fashionable Wedding. Gifts Prom the Prince of Wales and Cardinal Vaughan

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 August 1898 · page 6

The marriage took place on Monday afternoon (reports the London TABLET, July 16) at the Church of the Assumption, Warwick-street, of Mr. Walter B. Harris and Lady Mary Louisa Savi[?]e. The…

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His Golden Wedding

The Australian Star · Saturday 27 August 1898 · page 5

Jones: Coming round to my golden wedding next week? Brown (indignantly): Your golden wedding! Why, man, you're not thirty-five…

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Weddings

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 August 1898 · page 42

The marriage of Lieut. Clement Vallange with Miss Sylvia Madd[?], second daughter of Sir John Madden (Adminis[?]ator of the Government in Victoria), took place at St. Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne,…

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Fashionable Wedding, Auburn. Dobbin—Ritchie

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 27 August 1898 · page 4

A very attractive wed [?] was solemnised in St. Philip's church, A [?] on Wednesday afternoon, when Mr. Reginald Dobbin, of the head office of the City Bank, Sydney, and Miss…

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Golden Wedding

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 27 August 1898 · page 4

A pleasant party took place on Monday at the residence of Mr. David W. Obermson Good-street, May's Hill, Parramatta. In the afternoon the grandchildren…

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A Motor-car Wedding

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 August 1898 · page 6

The spectacle witnessed recently of 40 electric motor-cars, or, as they have been facetiously termed "buzzers," passing along the city of London streets is a sign of the times. If sensation was the aim,…

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A Wedding in Indian High Life

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 September 1898 · page 42

The way in which marriages are brought about in India being, of course, very different from that in which things are managed amongst Europeans, a description of a wedding in the family of a…

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Melbourne Society Wedding. (See Illustration on page 19.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 September 1898 · page 19

In our last issue, an account was given of the wedding of Lieutenant Vallange and Miss Sylvia Madden, daughter of Sir John and Lady Madden, which took place recently in Melbourne. On page…

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Personal. a Missionary's Wedding

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 September 1898 · page 4

An interesting ceremony came off in the Congregational Church, Granville, yesterday afternoon, when the Rev. John Herbert Morley, of Falealili. Samoa, of the London Missionary…

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Weddings

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 September 1898 · page 42

A pretty wedding, not[?]withstanding the inclemency of the weather, took place at the Synagogue on August 31, between Mr. George Miclearlis, third son of Mr. M. Mlclearlis, of Melbourne, and Miss Lilia[?]…

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A Romantic Wedding

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 10 September 1898 · page 12

Those of our renders who love true romance, will, we think, be interested to hear of the marriage of two erstwhile well-known young residents of old Parramatta. Miss " Tilly…

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Morley—Short. A Clergyman's Wedding

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 10 September 1898 · page 12

The social event of the week in Granville was the marriage of Miss Lucy Rose Short, daughter of Mr. B. Short, pastor of the local Congregational Church, to the Rev…

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Weddings. Brown—Mather

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 10 September 1898 · page 12

On Wednesday afternoon, at All Saints' Church, Parramatta North, the nuptials were celebrated, of Mr. R. J. Brown, of the staff of the Hospital for Insane…

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Wedding. Glynn—Bonney

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 September 1898 · page 1

A very pretty ceremony took place on Monday, 5th September, at "Arizona," Albion-street, Waverley, the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Smimoff Cooper…

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