Cheap Marriage.
In the year 1867 two persons left Dalkeith for Galashiels, and, riot having the requisite funds to get married by a minister, they each took a handful of meal and knelt down, facing each other, after placing a basin between them. Both then placed their hands full of meal in the basin and mixed it, in token that they " would not sever till death did them part ' After swearing to this effect on a Bible they both rose up and declared themselves man and wife. They afterwards returned to Dalkeith, where they resided as man and wife, the marriage being considered perfectly legaL
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 210, 9 July 1887, Page 3
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105Cheap Marriage. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 210, 9 July 1887, Page 3
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