A QUAKERS' WEDDING.
COUPLE MARBY THEMSELVES. A couple married themselves, without si minister, at the Friends' Meetinghouse, A Hon by, They were Mr, Thomas Wannop Williamson, formerly vfce-prin* cipal of the Cumberland and Westmorland Farm School, now agricultural lecturer to the Derbyshire County Council, and Miss Mary Fiance* Drnvell a teacher with a distinguished college career. The hiidegicoju, aftet a long silence, simply declared that he took the. bride as Ms wife uistil death separated thein. Miss Dowell, in her turn, declared that she took the bridegroom as her husband until death divided them. This ls_ w® usual form of marriage among the Friends or Quakers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19502, 4 December 1926, Page 2 (Supplement)
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106A QUAKERS' WEDDING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19502, 4 December 1926, Page 2 (Supplement)
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