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George
and Emily Marry 1871
This Marriage
certificate is the oldest original document we've found so far.
George and
Emily's
oldest surviving child was Emily Musgrove. Her daughter Molly has
saved this certificate and kindly lent it to us. As can be seen
George and Emily's signatures are different writing
to the rest of the certificate and are also written with different
pens
it is dated the same day as the wedding when you
get a copy it is dated the day of issue. St
Mary's church Lambeth is still there. The wedding was witnessed
by James Harris, Emilys' father. Bottom left on the certificate
is a Queen Victoria stamp. The Queen
was then in middle age aged 51. The Banns below were read
out three weeks
prior to the wedding.This is a copy
from the original from the Church of St
Mary's Lambeth. The early photo of
the church dates from the 1860s from a series of local views by
the photographer William Stradwick
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