REMARKABLE MARRIAGES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 575, 25 April 1873, Page 3

REMARKABLE MARRIAGES.

In 1772 “ x fine young girl of sixteen,” who had been brought up from chilohopd by the wife of Mr. Chamberlain, of Leeds, married that gentleman upon his becoming a widower at he mature'agejofeiglity-live. Another lass of the same age, Miss Sally Berrybridge, of Beckham, bestowed herself upon Mr. Josiah Whittaker, whose ninety-four years were couuterbala; ced by his fifty thousand -pounds ; and a sixteen year old ini-s, possessing a genteel fortune, tied herself for life to Mr. Norris, of Formby, a gentleman exactly six times her age. In 17G9 Miss Ann Nugent, of Mountaston. a forward damsel of fifteen, wedded R. Judge, Esq., off Covtesborough, KilJbeggan, a patriarchal soldier who had received a bullet in his nose fighting for or against William the Silent. A Worcestershire girl, aged fifteen, took a •blacksmith ninety years old for better or worse. A Berkshire gentleman, finding himself for the third time wifeless, at the age of seventysix, married a young lady to whom he had stood godfaL-er eighteen years before, ranking her step-mother to men and women thrice her own age. Sir John Leigh, Bart., of Addington, Surrey, of three thousand pounds a year, aged near seventy, married MBs Wade, about eighteen, daughter ol Mr Wade, apothecary, at Bromley, in Kent, who cured Sir John of a mortification in his toe; and ‘Mr. Thomas Gowler, an eminent tailor’, grocer, and chandler, at Warboys, Hunts, near a hundred years old, took a brisk young widow of the same place, aged thirty. He was so infirm that it was with great difficulty he got Hie license out of his pocket, and he several times dropped the ring before Ire could get it on lire lady’s linger; but since Ins marriage Iras so greatly recovered as to quit the assistance of his cane. According to the old saying, for every jack there is a Jill, and some very ugly Jacks contiivo to obtain very pretty Jills. Even Crutchy Jack of L' ids, a man of thirty six inches, found a spouse ; for when he dial at the age of sixty-tv. o he left behind Inra a widow and four children, the youngest a hoy of five. I In 1749 a noted Scotch blnegown, named William Hamilton, after defying .female blandishments for eighty years, succumbed to the charms of pretty Ja c L’n say, just out of her teens He cert 'uly got the best of tiro bargain, for' ho is described as having booh legs drawn up to his ears, Iris arms twisted backwards, and almost every part of him out of joint; at any rate, this queer specimen of humanity had to ho carried to tire “ marriage house ” upon the shoulders of a friendly porter.— Clampers' Journal.