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From: "salaam blackmore" <>
Subject: Re: DEVON-D Digest V02 #157
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 21:18:17 +0100
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Yes, up to a point...

But it is also fair to add that this church was also a favoured marriage
venue for what might be regarded as upmarket, fashionable folk.

It still is to this day, I believe.

I have only been invited to one wedding there, myself - between a national
newspaper journalist (a family friend) and a Dutch diplomat.

Neither of them was on home turf, so to speak.

The church itself was spacious with ample room for the big hats and acres of
fancy textile that weddings so obviously require. The journalist was
actually a very pretty girl and I was sorry to see her taken off the market
so peremptorily. I have a vague memory of teaching her to type, but since I
only used about four fingers then myself, I was most relieved to discover
that my limited skills had not hindered her subsequent career....


Salaam


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jo Taylor" <>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: DEVON-D Digest V02 #157


> Hello Evelyn,
>
> St. George's Hanover Square was a pit-stop marriage place - not many
> questions asked, just in case there were any little problems like lack of
> parental consent, marriage to deceased wife's sister, that sort of thing.
> Many "out-of-place" marriages took place there.
>
> HTH
> Jo Taylor
> ~~~~~~~
> > My Devon gt gt grandmother Susan Stonelake married in St Geo Hanover
> Square,
> > London. I know because my father read the entry in the Register of that
> > Church. How she came to marry in London or at that church I have no
idea.
> > Evelyn Wilcock.
>
>
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