Lovers Married After 42 Years

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 336, 18 January 1937, Page 7

Lovers Married After 42 Years

! ROMANCE WAS BROKEN BY LOST LETTERS i Forty-two years after the firsl I announcement of their engagement n ! Coventry man and a Leicester womai j were married in Coventry recently. ; Their romance went wrong long age i because some letters went astray; the; 1 ; never saw each other again, marrieo ; ■ others—and were freed by death ot I . • the same day. I ; I Meeting casually, they discovered th, , misunderstanding—and decided to puf , it right. Ln 1894 19-year-old Ernest Angnss, : soldier in the Argyll and Hutiterlnn 1 Highlanders, proposed to 17-year-ol Mary Ann Guttendge. She accept him. But almost immediately after Angl.. was sent out to India will) ins reg. . meat, and then he returned to CovenSr | on Christmas Eve, 1896. n« form, sweetheart had been married. Two years later Lrnest hims. married •<jn August Bank Holiday ol tins y,. I the two met again lot me tirst lime i I 40 years, and only then did truest fin ! out that thinking he nad broken off t. ■ engagement when she neard no wo j from him Miss Guttendge married I widower. I Mary s husband, Mr Meadows, < j Leicester, was buried in that town June 24, the same day as Mi Align buried his wife in Coventry. The wedding, which took pia. quietly at Coventry parish cnurcii, wu i witnessed by only Mt anti Mrs b. Ki.c of Grafton street, and meir daughtA curious feature was that Al Kiley’s wife’s sister was the hr. t Mr Angliss. l’he woman whom Mr Angus; ' j married yesterday was none other than ■ j Mr Riley’s second wife’s sister! I So Mr Riley’s daughter saw her I ! uncle marry her stepmother s sister.