Curious Marriages.
In Galashiels, in 1867, there was a mar^ rittgo by what ia called ' confarreatio.' The pair mixed handfula of meal ir> a bowl, and swore on a Bible never to parti This they believed constituted a legal rruirriage. Tbo ' Church Times' recently recorded a Btrange wedding which took place within tbQ memory of men still living, at the parish church of Gedney. A widow with four children, who was deeply in debt, wsb again married, covered by nothing bub a sheet. It was the popular belief, acted on in this caae c that if a man took a woman bo wife thus clad, he made ib patent to the world that she brought with her no worldly goods, and he would nob, therefore, be liable for any debts previously incurred by her. In this instance the sheet was sewn up like a bag, holes being left; at tho sides for her bare arms, and in that condition, barefooted, she came to the church, and wan duly married.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 50, 29 February 1896, Page 3 (Supplement)
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