GRETNA GREEK MARRIAGE.D

Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9723, 5 June 1924, Page 5

GRETNA GREEK MARRIAGE.D

A MODERN INSTANCE

The blacksmith of Gretna Green appeared in the Court of Session at Edinburgh (the Daily Telegraph reports), and described how he conducted a romantic Scots marriage at the famous smithy. The matter arose on an application by Mr Wilfrid Gliesuey Grandi and his wife Catherine St radian Geddes. or Grandi, both of Albert Terrace, 'Edinburgh, to have their marriage declared lawful. Mr Grandi said that ho and Miss Geddes were engaged to be married, and on Ist October, 1921, they went to the smithy at Gretna and were married by interchange of verbal consent. Theblacksmith, Richard Nugent, said he was the priest of Gretna, and occupied the famous smithy. Describing the ceremony, he said: “The couple .said they came from Edinburgh, where thev hail been resident for twenty-one days, before I joined the right hands together, and asked the man, ‘Do jou take this woman whom you now hold bv the right band to be your lawful wedded wife?’ and he said ‘Yes. A then asked the woman. ‘Do you take this man whose right hand you hold to he vour lawful wedded husband, and she said ‘Yes.’ I then declared them to be husband and wife according to the law of Scotland. Lord Ashmore granted a declaration of marriage.