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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   

Census

13 Menai View, Bangor, Caernarvon

Henrietta M Dumbreck

head

M

29

private income

Preston, Lancs

Isabella E Dumbreck

dau

 

6

scholar

London

Thomas S Dumbreck

son

 

3

 

London

Margret Roberts

visitor

M

81

 

Llanfihangel, Brecknock

Ellen Edwards

serv

U

40

cook

Bangor, Caernarvon

Winifred Edwards

serv

U

33

housekeeper

Bangor, Caernarvon

Elisabeth Edwards

serv

U

21

nurse

Bangor, Caernarvon

   


[1] Preston Guardian, Wednesday 3 September 1873, p.12.

 

 

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