WEDDING QUEUES IN GLASGOW
Glasgow tail', which swirled last Friday i.July ft), if* always a popular lime in Glas- ■ ovv for marriages; bin never before have (licio been so many holiday marriages as during 1 his w-cck. This statement- applies particularly to " irregular" marriages, or what are more correctly described as civil marriagfs. So ureal has l< en the number of \vcdd".!g parlies at lie county building' that tliov literally have formed tip in (pieties for regi-t ration. On Fail Friday SherilV l.vcll registered 76 of these marriages. This easily constitutes a "record" for a single day/ On the previous Fair Friday 33 couples were married ‘Since the end of June. 322 civil weddings have taken place in the county buildings. Up till yesterday there have boon 2.573 such marriages this year. A period of war always stimulates the marriage market. The first occasion on which the number of civil marriages exceeded 1,000 in a year was iu 1900. during the South African War, and then the total was 1.064. During succeeding yeans i lie total fluctuated around 1,000. In 1914, when the war broke out. the total suddenly jumped tip to 2,657. and in 1915 the highest number yet recorded for a single year was reached—namely, 3,676. Peace year, however, promises to exceed even that number. Marriage before the sheriff is becoming increasingly popular among the industrial classes, because it is a. convenient and economical form of wedding.—‘Times.’
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Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2644, 13 October 1919, Page 6
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