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From: Jill Morley <>
Subject: Look what I found
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 09:18:05 +-9-30

I have three volumes of the 'Register" personal notices. These are a list of all the newspaper entries form the period 1836 - 1870 in South Australia.
There are quite a lot of Dorset people listed. births deaths and marriage notices. If anyone who has a family that moved to South Australia during this period, would like me to look for them, I will. The index is long too many to list.

Here is one that I found that I thought would interest you all.
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REGISTER PERSONAL NOTICES Volume 1 1836 - 1859

3 December 1845

On the 9th July, at St Mary's Church Swansea, by the Rev. David George Griffiths, officiating Minister, the Rev George Robinson Thomas, of Charlinch, Somersetshire, to Miss Agnes Nottidge, of Brighton: also at the same time and place, by the Rev. D. Griffiths, the Rev. Lewis Price, of Preston, Dorsetshire, to Miss Harriet Nottidge, of Brighton: also at the same time and place, by the Rev. D. Griffiths. the Rev. William Cobbe, of Bridgewater, to Miss Clara Nottage, of Brighton. The brides who were three sisters, wore very strange and peculiar dresses for such an occasion. Each had on a white hat and a black veil. They are followers of a certain fanatic, who pretends to have received some wonderful testimony from the Almighty, and predicts that the end of the world is at hand. He is now in Swansea, and is, or rather has been, a clergyman of the Established Church. - The Welshman. If these foolish virgins really believe that the end of the world was at hand, why did they not wai!
t for the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven, ''where they neither marry nor are given in marriage?' It reminds one of some of the Millerites in America, who in the same year (1844) that they predicted the world's end, bought and sold land, and collected subscriptions to defray chapel debts.
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Not all the entries are as colourful as this, most are just notices, but some have where the person was born and the parents ect.
I will look for anyone, for nothing. No Strings.
(However in return if you have an ARNOLD (any) on your tree by marriage I would be grateful for the information.)

Jill Morley (nee Arnold) in South Australia.

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