ELOPED, DIVORCED' REMARRIED

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 451, 3 January 1934, Page 3

ELOPED, DIVORCED' REMARRIED

A COUPLE'S ROMANCE An elopement, divorce and re-mar-riage. This is the romantic story behind the wedding on November 4 of Mr. Frederick James Chitty and Mrs. Nellie Chitty, at Waldsworth Registry Office, London. The couple were first married in 1922, when they were both 22, but after four years Mrs. Chitty went to New r York as a lady's companion. The following year she returned home and there was a divorce decree. Altogether, Mrs. Chitty crossed the Atlantic seven times, and each time her husband proposed to her. Finally this year she accepted him. Only three people were present at the ceremony, beside the bride and bridegroom. Mrs. Chitty was given away by her mother, Mrs. Turpin. Her sister, Miss Ethel Turpin, who was bridesmaid at the first wedding, and Miss May Jordan, were witnesses.

The couple did not go away for a second honeymoon. Mr. Chitty was at his work as a motor-tyre dealer in Balham as usual on the Monday following the wedding. "This is very different from our first wedding" Mrs. Chitty said after the ceremony. "We were then both very young and ran away to get married. My parents said it was very foolish and that I was too young. When I got tired of being tied down some years after, I thought perhaps they were right. "I went to America and had a good time there; but now I am 33, and feel I ought to settle down. I realise now that I have loved my husband all the time. I am looking forward to my second married life, and I do not intend to roam across the Atlantic again."