AMAZINC MARRIAGE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 95, 20 October 1908, Page 6

AMAZINC MARRIAGE.

„- At the village of Ludgvari, near / Penzance, a wedding was celebrated ■- recently which probably establishes a T record. v . . The combined ages of the couple — Francis- Russell . Vincent and Annie Harvey — 'give the amazing figure of 182 years. Both had been married twice before. The bridegroom is 'eighty-six and his bride ten years older — only four years from a "hun- ; dredj : . " It was a love match, announces a writer in the Daily Mirror. ". In vain did the villagers protest against the v marriage by rattling on tin cans in front of the bride's house. \ . Tlie pair considered they were old enough to know -their own minds. They only smiled at the taunts of, '" the young people. ' To avoid a. village demonstration - on their wedding day, an ingenious , plan was devised whereby* the -couple got safely away to Penzance.

The bride, who lived one mile from the house of the bridegroom, rose at " break~of day, and walked alone to the house of her future husband, who had already dressed for the wedding.

Arm-in-arm they glided quietly f from the village, before their neighbours were astir. , A carriage stood iv readiness on a country road, and, accompanied by a daughter and a

grand-daughter of the bridegroom the party arrived at Penzance be- -- -fcween seven- and eight o'clock.

• By a striking contrast, at the hour F of their nuptials' another wedding

between a bride of nineteen and a bridegroom of twenty was being ; solemnised in a chapel in the same street. " ;

The old people were married by the ■ registrar, who had a difficulty in

'A congratulating, them felicitously. <>. Their- extreme age overwhelmed him. fi "1 cannot wish yon long life," he - said. '"You have had that already. s "But I wish you happiness ah much /"longer as you do live." -• if-- Notwithstanding their weight of l . years they looked a - happy and h sprightly couple; he wea-ring lavender "trousers and yellow gloves, and she ■a bonnet trimmed with heliotrope '": and aj)ple. blossom.

-. . From Penzance they drove to their "v'nfcw- home, and in the afternoon £ -friends nocked to wish them every '■'■■■ happiness.

.'" The bridegroom looked a picture of matrimonial bliss, seated in an

armchair in his shirt sleeves', whilst s the bride busied herself w.ith clearing ' away the utensils \used for the wed- ; ding dinner.

' The old gentleman remarked that r his wife wanted a man of beauty with ,_ plenty of money, and she had got r both.

, The bride entered into the spirit of the conversation, and was evident-' 'ly pleased to show the bright new wedding-ring on her -left hand. But what pleased her "chiefly was

the way in which, by rising at five in the morning, she had given the -villagers "the double," as the old Cornish woman phrased it.

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