Carpentry As Test To Win Bride
Twenty-three-year-old William Bradley, of Greenford, Middlesex, failed to answer his future father-in-law’s technical questions on carpentry, which was one of the conditions for his daughter’s hand. “He asked me no personal questions that a young man would expect. He told me to go to court. I did—and now the Ealing magistrates have given their consent,” William told a Daily Sketch reporter. And so he is to marry 19-year-old Doreen O’Connell. ‘T have just been to see the vicar, and we are getting married early in October,” he said. “It was nine months ago when Doreen and 1 went back to her home one night to ask her parents’ consent, and I was solemnly called into another room for the ‘examination.’ ”
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 311, 17 December 1936, Page 3 (Supplement)
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126Carpentry As Test To Win Bride Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 311, 17 December 1936, Page 3 (Supplement)
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