DRAMAS OF GRETNA GREEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 April 1938, Page 8

DRAMAS OF GRETNA GREEN

RELATIVES TOO LATE , '' " LONDON, Feb. 28. There were developments in two Gretna Green elopements during the week-end, and a marriage of a Gretna couple last night. In one elopement case, relatives ot a London girl failed to stop her marriage, and in the other a. couple from a Somerset village decided on an English ceremony to fellow their Scottish one. . On Saturday night Miss Viviane Etta Ades, 17, of Manor-drive, Wembley, "was married at Gretna Green To Mr. -• F£ed Gollas,' 23, an. auditor, of Green .Hni-cresceht, Harrow. The bride is aaWTp/T>e.'a ward in Chancery. ATTuhdle of the bride arrived a mo-\Vfm*iff-''&r/so too late to prevent the "~cereuibny, and some time later her ststerT Miss Fortune Ades, came on the scene,, accompained by a legal representative. Miss Ades declared that her sister, was not legally married. She had not resided in Scotland for the statutory 21 days. “Theperiod. will not. expire until midnight" to-night,” added Miss AclcSws?- . .< « Mr. David Mackintosh, who officiated: at'.tfee Cfi.Ee.ipony, maintained that were; legally married. ~ 'Mi§g .Alles. that, she "Would 'jgggk to-;Bls ven t .registration of the •' stated that her sister EftSlkHd, hut yas an suhfect. The family had been of Jewish faith for centuries. “The "family would be reconciled to a. wedding .if my sister was older, despite that,difference in faith,” she add- , .edT . • ,• ”It -is understood that the brides is a high official in Egypt. Her ’"mother "is dead.

..-ELOPED FROM VILLAGE —A -few-; weeks ago Miss Edith Eliza left her home at Hinton Gh-arterlieuse, near Bath, during the " Hight,-and joined Mr. James William Sheppafd, who had recently returned from- Army service in India. Theywent to -Gretna Green. Mr. Sheppard found work on a farm near- there while qualifying for the. statutory 21 (lays’ residence. Meanwhile'the girl’s parents reported her c to- the -police as missing, and inquiries wef , e : made in the Birmingham area, v-wfeere-the couple were believed to --have gone? After their marriage they returned ; to-Hintdn- Charterhouse. They have now given notice to the Registrar at Bath of their intended remarriage on March 16. Mrs. Sheppard’s parents have given their consent. Her mother said yesterday “They are doing this to satisfy me, although I am certain they are legally married according to Scottish law?’ The midnight marriage -was that of Mr. Myles Maclnnes, of *the Union Jack Hotel, Gretna, and Miss Margaret Conroy, of East Gretna Township. The ceremnoy took place in the smithy. The couple had awakened their parents, who had already retired to bed, and there was a family party round the anvil. The- bride, who cut the first wedding cake seen at the smithy, and bridegroom left to the skirl of the pipes.