MARRIAGE BY PROXY
'A POSTAL COURTSHIP
In a few days' time—she docs not know exactly when—a girl in London will receive a cable informing .her that she has just been married in Samarang, Java, wrote tho '''Manchester Guardian" on dth March. The cable will be sent by the bridegroom immediately after he has gone through the ceremony—with a married woman at his side!
The girl is Miss Olive Shadford, of Hanover street, Peckham Rye, London, who until a day or so ago was working in a big Holborn store, and her future husband is Mr. Jack Sicblinck, a Dutchman, who occupies a responsible position with tho Java Government Railways. He met Miss Shadford in London two years ago, and the coming ceremony will be a marriage by proxy, which has been arranged -by correspondence. ' . . Miss Shadford, who is 20, is at present staying at Bexley Heath with her aunt, Mrs. F. E. H. Hutson, who is helping her in her preparations for going out to Java next month as an already married woman. Mr. Hutson, speaking'about his niece's _unconventioVal romance, said: "Mr. Sieb,linck and Olive fell in love when they met a couple of years ago, but Mr. Sieblinck's business has tied him to Java since then. % "So the courtship was continued and flourished by post, and eventually led up to Olive's accepting his offer of marriage. It was impossible for him to get back to London for the wedding, and they agreed that it would be more convenient for her i£ she travelled out to Java—where a bungalow home is all ready for her—as a married woman. . "Accordingly this marriage by proxy will be carried out under Dutch law at the Dutch Commissioner's office at bamarang, following the' signing by my niece of a number of documents which were sent to the Consulate in London. The proxy bride' is to be a married woman friend of Mr Sieblinck's, with whom Olive has had quite a good deal of correspondence Directly after the ceremony Mr. Sieblmck will cable to Olive, who wi then by Dutch law be his wife,, and will be able to wear the wedding ring she has already bCWh?n VeMiss Shadford arrives in Samarang she and her husband will go through the marriage ceremony at. the English church there. - . . '
MARRIAGE BY PROXY
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 112, 14 May 1930, Page 18
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