Married After 40 Years’ Engagement
QUIET WEDDING YESTERDAY Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. Au engagement begun 40 years ago in Bradford, England, ended quietly this afternoon in a friend’s house in Wellington when John Thomas Turvcy, aged GO, of Kohimarama, Auckland, was married to Miss Mary Hannah Huntington, aged 58, of Bradford. Once fellow schoolchildren they are now to spend the autumn of their days together thousands of miles from the country of their birth. To marry a man she had not seen for 35 years Miss Huntington left Yorkshire about three months ago and arrived in Wellington on October 37. She would have kept dark the secret of her journey but relations in England gave it away. Her romance became public property overnight and she and her flanco were the centre of unusual interest.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 273, 18 November 1936, Page 4
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