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HENRIETTA MARY DUMBRECK (nee Miller) and SUTHERLAND
DUMBRECK 1873 MARRIAGE OF MISS MILLER. Yesterday forenoon the entrances to the parish church
were besieged at an early hour with crowds of anxious individuals waiting to
obtain admittance. The doors of the sacred edifice were opened soon after ten
o'clock, and from that time till an hour afterward hundreds of visitors flocked
in. Bevies of fashionable young ladies in many cases with attendant squires,
arrived continuously, and took up positions the most favourable to view the
interesting ceremony about to take place. More elderly dames, it must be
confessed, piqued with curiosity to witness the event, were there in large
numbers, and by eleven o'clock the church, both in the body and the gallery, was
crowded, every possible coign of vantage being taken possession of. The cause of
all this was the marriage of Miss Miller, eldest daughter of our respected
townsman, Thomas Miller, Esq., to Lieutenant Dumbreck, of the 3 Royal Lancashire
Militia, and only son of Sir David Dumbreck, KCB, Inspector General of Her
Majesty's Hospitals. After pushing one's way through all the crowd and bustle at
the doors into the interior of the church, one had time to ask one's self how an
event of such a nature had become known to the great congregation assembled, and
this could only be explained by the fact that it has for the last few days
formed the theme of the busy tattle of the ladies. Before the arrival of the
wedding party a low buzz of conversation filled the church, the subject of which
it was easy to divine, and will be no more difficult for our readers to guess.
About eleven o'clock the organ, at which Mr. Greaves presided, burst forth into
a grand voluntary, signalising the entry into the sacred edifice of the
bridegroom, who walked up the centre aisle of the church accompanied by his
groomsmen, Mr. A. Adams, who acted as " best man," Mr. W. P. Miller,
Mr. S. A. Hermon, Mr. C. R. Byrne, and Mr. J. Harris. The bridegroom must
certainly be complimented on the composure with which he bore himself in the
trying circumstances in which he was placed, for during the next ten minutes he
was the observed of all observers. At a quarter to 11 o'clock [sic] the
remainder of the wedding party arrived at the church. From the gates to the
church door carpeting had been laid. The bells rang a wedding peel and the organ
played the " Wedding March." The clergymen who were to perform the
ceremony, the Rev. Jos. Pitt, M.A., rector of Rendcomb, Gloucestershire, the
uncle of the bride, and the Rev. W. M. Myres, came first, and were immediately
followed by the rest of the party, who had arrived in the following order from
the residence of the bride, Winckley Square. 1st Carriage
Mr. W. P. Miller and Mrs. Miller. 2nd Carriage
Sir David Dumbreck and Lady Dumbreck. 3rd Carriage
Mrs. Pitt and Mrs. Robins. 4th Carriage
Miss Whitehead and Miss Pringle. 5th Carriage
Miss Kate Miller, Miss Edith Miller, and Miss Fitzgibbons. 6th Carriage
Mrs. T. H. Miller, Sir Harry Goodricke, Bart. and Mr. C. R. Byrne. 7th Carriage
Mr. T. H. Miller and the bride. The scene in
the chancel of the church was unusually brilliant, the hues of the ladies'
dresses, as beautiful and as numerous as those of the rainbow, blended with the
varied colours of the reredos and the beautiful window above, and over all was
the manylighted chandelier, altogether forming such a spectacle as is rarely to
be witnessed. And now we approach a part of the subject we are not ashamed to
confess ourselves almost incompetent to perform. " How was the bride
dressed ?" will be almost the first question of our lady readers. Through
the kindness of those well versed in such matters we shall be able to gratify
their curiosity. The bride was attired in a dress of white silk, trimmed with
tulle and orange blossom, and wore a tulle veil, with a conventional wreath of
orange blossoms and diamond ornaments. With the bride were five bridesmaids
‑ Miss Kate Miller, Miss Edith Miller, Miss Whitehead, Miss Pringle and
Miss Fitzgibbons ‑ who performed their important part in the ceremony with
the most becoming grace. They were attired in white muslin and cerise silk,
tulle bonnets with wild roses, and tulle veils. The bride was given away by T.
H. Miller, Esq. No time was lost in commencing the service, which lasted nearly
half an hour. The congregation did not join in the devotional portion, but there
was good order maintained throughout. The responses of the bride were distinctly
heard in the church, while those of the bridegroom were less clear. The ceremony
ended, and the register having been duly signed and attested, the party made
back to the carriages at the door, amid another peel from the bells, and shortly
after the sacred edifice resumed it's wanted stillness. Among those who sat down
at breakfast, at the residence, and who also assisted at the ceremony were Sir
David Dumbreck and Mrs Miller, Col. Wilson Patten, M.P. , and Mrs. Jeffray, the
Rev. E. V. Pigott and Mrs. Cairns, Mr. J. D. Kennedy and Mrs. Myres, Mr. C. R.
Orlebar and Mrs. Pigott, Mr. G. Robins and Mrs. Pitt, Miss Whitehead and Miss
Edith Miller, Mr. J. M. Shuttleworth and Mrs. J. D. Kennedy, Mr. Harris and Miss
Pringle, Mr. W. P. Miller and Mrs. Robins, Mr. S. A. Hermon and Miss Cairns, Sir
Harry Goodricke and Mrs Orlebar, the Rev W. M. Myres and Mrs. T. H. Miller, the
Rev. J. Pitt and Mrs. H. Miller, Mr. T. H. Miller and Lady Dumbreck. The "
Wealth of the Bride and Bridegroom " was proposed by the Rev. J. Pitt and
drunk with three times three, and responded to by the bridegroom. The
newly‑married couple left Preston Station by the afternoon express for
London, to spend the honeymoon, the old custom of throwing the slipper being
observed before the carriage and pair left the door in Winckley Square. The
presents, we may add, were of a numerous and costly description. In the evening
a ball was given, to which numerous invitations were issued.[1] 1881
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