October 14. — William Weatherburn, pitman, belonging to Heaton, was married at All Saints’ church, in Newcastle, to Elizabeth Oswald, of Gallowgate. At the celebration of this marriage, there was the greatest concourse of people ever known on a like occasion. There were five or six thousand at church and in the church yard. The bride and bridegroom having invited their friends in the country, a great number attended them to church, and being mostly mounted double, or a man and a woman upon a horse, made a very grotesque appearance in their parade through the streets. The woman and the horses were literally covered with ribbons. The reader will here be reminded of the scenes as delineated in "The Collier’s Wedding," by Edward Chicken. There are no such doings among the colliers now-a-days. [LRS]

 

 

• LRS — Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by John Sykes, Published in 1833 in two volumes