Garnett-Key.- At the St. Leonards Church on the 14th of April, Capt. Alfred Ingilby Garnett was married to Katherine, daughter of Stephen Halloway, Esq., and widow of Capt. Key. It was a curious coincidence that the bride, a good looking, comparatively young (and as it was said) amiable lady, was married to her first husband just eleven years before, in the same month, on the same day of the month and the same day of the week. She was two years a widow. The bridal party proceeded from the church to 8 Warrior square where the wedding breakfast was prepared, after which the bride and bridegroom started on a tour to Folkestone and Paris.
Sterry - Middleton. Another interesting scene was presented at the same church on the 19th of May, when the Rev. Francis Sterry, son of Wasey Sterry, Esq., was married to Augusta Emily, second surviving daughter of Hastings Nathaniel Middleton, Esq. On leaving the church, the bridal party were conveyed in six "pair greys" and two other carriages to Gloucester Lodge, where and elegant and sumptuous dejenuer was awaiting them. Herr Klee's band played the Wedding March and other music, and in the afternoon the bride and bridegroom took their departure westward, enroute for the wedding trip. The event was further celebrated in the evening by a dinner and ball. [Curiously enough, it was at this wedding that the Rev. R. Workman, who being present at the breakfast, was discovered by another of the guests to be not Workman, but Rawlins, a returned convict, who had suffered the penalty of the law for an act of forgery. This discovery being communicated from one to another cause quite a sensation in the town, the result of which is described under the heading of An Unfortunate Church; Workman alias Rawlins pages 157 to 177.
Wollaston - MacGregor. Another of those interesting events which were not altogether rare in the locality took place at the so called old church on Tuesday, May 24th, when the accomplished Miss Constance Sophia MacGregor was led to the hymeneal altar by the Rev. W. Mouro Wollaston, vicar of Merston, Oxon. The bridesmaids were seven in number, among whom were four sisters of the bride; the marriage service was performed by the Revs. I. Blagden, of Christ Church, St Leonards, and C. Wollaston, vicar of Felphan. The bride was given away by P. F. Robertson, Esq. (cousin of the lady). On leaving church, the bridal party repaired to the Sussex Hotel, where a recherche dejeuner was prepared, and partaken of by about 30 guests. Of this pretty wedding witnessed by a crowded church, interesting details were reported by the St. Leonards Gazette.
Smith-Baldy. At the Wesleyan Chapel, St. Leonards, were married, on the 12th of January, Mr Henry Albert Smith and Miss Harriet Baldy. This being the first event of the kind that had taken place -
