Gretna Green Romance And The Law’s Early Strikes
A historical look at Gretna Greens romance, the outlawed priest figures, and Parliament's 1754 marriage law. It recounts the Fleet Prison clergy, reported runaway marriages, the rise of innkeeper trades, and notable cases including Ellen Turner and the brig keepers who emerged around Gretna Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gretna
England
Gretnan
Scotland
Ellen Turner
Manchester
Ebe
Wakefield
Calais
Fleet Prison
Scott O
Lark Bridge
Gretna Hall
Yount Marries For A Comfortable Livelihood
The passage argues against the notion that any of these individuals were blacksmiths and notes there has never been a Gretna blacksmith marrying partners from the anvil. It mentions Joseph Paisley as a famously strong marrier and suggests myths arose from such tales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jovers
Gretna
Joseph Paisley
Drums of Sand Returned from San Francisco Alleged Shipment
Four months earlier the freighter Sheaf Holme loaded 63 drums of tallow in Melbourne for San Francisco. The drums, weighing about 18 tons and valued at £100, were later found to contain sand after a 4000 mile round trip. The drums were sent back to Melbourne and a June shipment of tallow from Melbourne to New York is being probed. Police seek the man who arranged the freight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melbourne
San Francisco
New York
News In Brief From England And Europe
Britain faces £4,000,000 annual compensation for broken bones and £7,000,000 in lost wages while National Savings Certificates stand as ideal small investor security. The Great Western Railway unveils the Cornish Riviera express costing £40,000, non stop to Truro and then St Erth. A Berlin People's Court condemns Rudolf Claus for treasonable intrigues. A massive door opens at Heston Airport, 200 by 30 feet, operable by hand or electricity. A French aristocrat becomes a Pasadena butler amid scarce options. In Tsndau a Jew and Aryan wife face arrest after a judge grants a marriage licence. Robert Coy of Pretoria, Illinois, sets a golf marathon record with 1000 consecutive holes. An elderly man in Pretov Moraia fined for a 40-year-old bodily injury dispute. Durley near the coast shows many villagers unfamiliar with trains or the sea. Russia plans the world’s tallest building, the Palace of the Soviets, crowned by a 200-foot Lenin statue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Britain
British Post Office
Great Western Railway
Truro
St. Erth
Rudolf Claus
Communist Party
People's Court
Berin
Heston
Vicomte de Kergoet
Paris
Pasadena
Tsndau
Germany
Durley
Hampshire
Isle of Wight
Also Mentioned on This Page
Grime & Small
Phone
Tasma and Stromberg Carlson
the City Radio Store
A.G. Turner
A.M.P. Society
A.M P
AMSP
Po A
Society CA
D. E. Walker
New South Wales
Victoria & Pulteney
Taree
Arthur W. Davis
J. M. Treckenridge
MYTH
Gretna Green
Lord Pitman
Godfrey Collins
Hluston
Harrison Brown
London
Chelava
Ranelagh Gardens
Jack Freeland
Fleet Street
Old Fleet
Freeland
Duke of Newcastle
Pelham
J. Stewart & Son
Harringtons
Perfect
Sterling Seeds
J. Cusack
KODAK
Moore's Modern Pharmacy
Gloucester
Street & Parish Ltd
Mln
Haney
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