The Black Dog and a Slew of Christmas Weddings [Part 1]
Christmas Day weddings were common in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as this was one of the few days off granted to working people, and on Christmas Day, 25 December 1863, George Edward Smith, engine fitter, married Sarah Lester at Swindon, Wiltshire. And so begins a story, threaded through with Christmases, which we uncovered because… Read more The Black Dog and a Slew of Christmas Weddings [Part 1]
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