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    1. [YORKSHIRE] Gretna Green Marriage of WOLLASTON & FAWCETT (1817 )
    2. >From The Hull Packet and Original Weekly Commercial, Literary and General Advertiser, Tuesday, April 15, 1817; Issue 1590. On the 4th instant, at Gretna Green, Mr. WOLLASTON, Under Master of the Leeds Free Grammar School, to Charlotte, fourth daughter of the Rev. Richard FAWCETT, M. A. Vicar of Leeds; and, on Wednesday last the parties were re-married at the parish church in Leeds, by the Rev. Mr. CLAPHAM. N.B. For those who don't know, GRETNA GREEN, is in Scotland, just over the English border, & a place where those under age, whose family were against the marriage, would elope to. Weddings are now popular there without eloping. See :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretna_Green This item is NOT connected to our research.

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