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From: Roy Stockdill <>
Subject: Double wedding with a difference!
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 08:45:42 -0500


Hello all

HERE is one of my occasional little quiz/puzzle questions to get those
brains humming!

At St. Oswald's Church, Guiseley, near Otley, one grey winter's day in
December 1812 a rather unusual wedding ceremony took place when two
bridegrooms married one another. How could this be??? A clue - one of them
was later to become the father of three world famous sisters.

Roy in Hertfordshire UK
The Stockdill Family History Society (Guild of One-Name Studies, FedFHS)
STOCKDILL/PREST/YELLOW/BOLTON/WORSNOP/
GIBSON/MIDGLEY/BRACEWELL/BRADLEY/MOODY in Yorkshire North & West Ridings
MEAD/YOUNG in Somerset, Wiltshire & Gloucestershire
Web page of the Stockdill Family History Society:-
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roystock
Twice-yearly journal/newsletter "White Rose" dedicated to our Yorkshire
ancestry

”Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you.
If he does not, why humiliate him?" - Sydney Smith (scholar and humorist
1771-1845)

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