Blackpool Methodists - Marriage Notices

Publication: The Preston Chronicle and Lancashire Advertiser

Date: 29 Oct 1864

Marriage – On the 22nd inst., at the Wesleyan Chapel, Blackpool, by the Rev. James Parkes, Mr William Noblet, bricklayer, Carleton, to Miss Annie King, hosier, Blackpool.

1864 newspaper cutting about Wesleyan marriages

Publication: The Preston Chronicle and Lancashire Advertiser

Date: 11 May 1867

Marriage – On the 4th instant, at the Wesleyan Chapel, Blackpool, by the Rev. Robert Cooke, Mr A. W. Hosking, of Manchester, to Mary Ann, daughter of the late Mr John Prescott, auctioneer, Manchester and Blackpool.

1867 newspaper cutting about Wesleyan marriages

Publication: The Preston Chronicle and Lancashire Advertiser

Date: 15 June 1867

Marriages –

On the 10th instant, at the Wesleyan Chapel, Blackpool by the Rev. J. J. Twells, assisted by the Rev. Robert Cooke, Mr William F Griffin, draper, Lincoln, to Miss Ruth Bainbridge, Royal Hotel, Blackpool.

On the 13th instant, at the Wesleyan Chapel, Blackpool by the Rev. Robert Cooke, Mr James Edward Whatmough, furniture Broker, Manchester, to Miss Mary Jane Mills, of Blackpool.

1867 newspaper cutting about Wesleyan marriages

Publication: The Preston Chronicle and Lancashire Advertiser

Date: 5 Sept 1868

Marriages – On the 30th ult., at the Wesleyan Chapel, Blackpool, by the Rev. Robert Cooke, Mr Richard Forshaw, of Earlston, Newton-le-Willows, to Miss Jennett Howard, of Blackpool.

1868 newspaper cutting about Wesleyan marriages

Publication: The Preston Chronicle and Lancashire Advertiser

Date: Saturday 7 December 1878

On the 5th inst., at the Wesleyan Free Church, Adelaide Street, Blackpool, by the Rev. F. Lamb, Mr John Robert Stewart to Miss Ada Dawson, both of Blackpool.

1878 newspaper cutting about Wesleyan marriages

Publication: The Preston Chronicle and Lancashire Advertiser

Date: March 15 1879

Page: 5

Marriages – On the 13th inst. At the Wesleyan Chapel, Blackpool, by the Rev. James H Hodson, Mr Richard Thomas Hildreth to Miss Annie Naylor, both of Blackpool.

1879 newspaper cutting about Wesleyan marriages

Publication: Blackpool Herald

Date: Friday May 6 1881

Page: 5

Title: Fashionable Wedding

On Wednesday morning a wedding took place at the Wesleyan Chapel, Blackpool. The bride was Miss Grace Thompson, daughter of Mr William Thompson, of Mythop, and the bridegroom was Mr Richard Lancaster of Fleetwood. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Peter Thompson (brother of the bride), of London, assisted by the Rev. J. M. Pilter, of Blackpool, and the Rev. R. M. Rees, of South Shore.

The bride was attired in a light brown silk, profusely trimmed with white lace. The bridesmaid (Miss Lancaster) was dressed in prune silk trimmed with pale blue.

After the ceremony was over, the party drove off to Mythop to breakfast. The happy pair intend to spend their honeymoon at the Lakes.

1881 newspaper cutting about Wesleyan marriages

Publication: Blackpool Herald

Date: Friday May 6 1881

Page: 5

Title: Fashionable Wedding

Yesterday (Thursday, South Shore witnessed a fashionable marriage which took place at the Wesleyan Chapel, where Miss Grace Amelia, daughter of Thomas Ward esq., Arnold House, was married to Mr Thomas Henry Brown of Bolton. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. M. Pilter, assisted by the Rev. R. M. Rees.

The bridesmaids were sisters of the charming bride. The carriages were drawn by greys and the turn out was altogether a brilliant one. Several flags were displayed at South Shore, and at the Liberal Club, Church Street, Blackpool, of which the father of the bride is president, there was a ‘Liberal’ display of flags and bunting.

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