OLD MARRIAGE ANNOUNCE-
MENTS.
The editor of the Oetit’eman's Magazine used to announce marring s thus:—“Mr Baskett t> Miss Pell, with 15,000;” “Mr Davis to Miss WykU with 1400 per annum ;” “ the Lord Bishop of St. Asaph to Miss (hell, with L 30.000 “J. Whitcorabe, Esq , to Miss Allen, with 140,000 Mr N. Til otaon, the eminent preacher among the people called Quakers, and a relative of Archbishop Tillotson, to Miss , with L 7,0 ! 0“ Mr P. Bowen, to Miss Nioholls, of Grecnhitho, with LI ,000 ;” “ Fir George C to Widow Jones, with LIO.OOO a year, bes’des ready money.” At the same time, the Scotch—more gallant than their fellow-countrymen of South Britain—whilst announcing tho amount of a bride’s fortune, used also to mention her personal and moral endowments, as qualifications scarcely less important than her money. “On Monday last,” runs a mafpinmnial announcement in the OUwfoiu Conrant (1747), “Dr Robert Hamilton, Profes-or of Anatomy and Botany in the University of Glasgow, to Miss Molly Baird, a beautiful young lady with a handsome fortune,” Another marriage, which occurred in the same year, is announced in the same journal thus On Monday last Mr James Johnstone, merchant in this place, was married to Mias Peggy Newall, a young lady of great merit, and a fortune of 1.4,000.’'
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Evening Star, Issue 3193, 15 May 1873, Page 3
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215OLD MARRIAGE ANNOUNCE- Evening Star, Issue 3193, 15 May 1873, Page 3
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