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Offline NickDub

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Re: Engaged or Good friends
« Reply #9 on: Friday 23 February 24 11:32 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: mazi on Friday 23 February 24 10:41 GMT (UK)
It is my view that they were engaged, this, then was a formal commitment to marriage, accompanied by an expensive diamond :)
When did suing for breach of promise stop.


Mike

Suing for breach of promise stops when neither party has any money - trying to get blood out of a stone is a waste of effort.
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Worgan Gloucestershire

Offline Chris Doran

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Re: Engaged or Good friends
« Reply #10 on: Friday 23 February 24 14:46 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: spendlove on Thursday 22 February 24 21:22 GMT (UK)
Hi,
The name of the giver was Jessie Curtis not Smith.  Married as Jessie Curtis = Stanley Bungay. Plaitford School where she had worked presented her with a silver tea service.
If she was a teacher and that was a council school, then she would not have been allowed to stay in her career once married. I have come across a number of instances relating to this rule in our local eduation committee records. It probably applied to other professionals too.
Researching Penge, Anerley, (incuding the Crystal Palace) and neighbouring parts of Beckenham, currently in London (Bromley), formerly Surrey and/or Kent.

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Re: Engaged or Good friends
« Reply #11 on: Friday 23 February 24 18:34 GMT (UK) »
My great grandparents married in June 1920 but I found a old postcard from the bride to the groom dated Christmas 1914.
Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain
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