BANNS THAT BANNED
A COUPLE DISAPPOINTED A young woman living in the West Somerset village of Huish Episcopi, and her sweetheart, were recently anxiously counting the days to the first -week in November, when they were to make their second attempt to be married. In October the intending bride, Miss E. M. Lewis, and her would-be husband, Mr J. T. Taylor, arrived at the Huish Episcopi Church for the’marriage, the girl wearing her wedding finery and attended by bridesmaids. Many friends w r cre at the church. Just as the service was about to begin the clergyman sprung a surprise by refusing to marry the couple because their banns had not been properly called. Sadly, the young folk had to return home unwed, and they had to wait three weeks for the banns to be announced again. The mistake that prevented their wedding was that the bridegroom neglected to have the banns called at the church in his heme parish as well as having them _ called at the bride’s church. In the circumstances it would have been illegal for them to have been manr‘d.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 450, 16 December 1930, Page 2
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184BANNS THAT BANNED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 450, 16 December 1930, Page 2
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