The Wedding Belles exhibition, 2007
- David Young
- Feb 14, 2024
- 3 min read
Updated: Sep 19
The History of Thursley Society mounted an exhibition of the history of weddings in Thursley Church since 1613. Stories of weddings appear in the pdfs and photographs below but also some appear as separate blogs and can be found by searching Wedding Belles. With the launch of the website, we have taken the opportunity of adding weddings both before and after 2007. If you were married at St Michael's and All Angels and would like your wedding featured, please send photographs and a description via the website.
Early Weddings
The Squarson: The wedding of Francis Gooch & Catherine Paine, 28th April, 1868
Sir Alfred Giles's daughters: 1872, 1885 and 1887
The Fosberry family weddings: 1873, 1894 and 1949
A Farm wedding: George Warner & Edith Keen, 5th June, 1909
The weddings of the Reeds: 1909, 1957, 1960 and 1963
Father of the Bride: the wedding of Gerard Staveley Gordon & Marjorie Worsley Smith, 10th November, 1920
The Rapleys: the wedding of Vernon Rapley & Margaret Walters, 20th September, 1923
Mr Henry Walters and his daughter, Margaret
High Society: the wedding of Richard Henry Anstruther Morris-Markham & Miss Iris Rose Sophia Larking, 22nd June, 1929
Three Wedding Gems: 1939, 1953 and 1971
The wedding of Leonard Raggett & Elizabeth Keen, 23rd March 1940
One Wife or Two? The wedding of Lawrence Pink & Evie Hayter, 1st October 1941
Canadian Union: the wedding of Charles Campbell Graham & Helen Elizabeth Keen, 17th August 1943
Robbie and Eddie: the wedding of Robert Patterson Morgan & Edna Madeleine Hall, 8th June 1946
A Very Long Marriage: The wedding of Richard Partington and Peggy Sayers, 16th September 1950
The wedding of Bertram Webb & Joan Good, 1st September 1956
The wedding of Stephen Waters & Maureen Cottle, 16th August 1961
The wedding of Richard Timberlake & Anne Jobson, 23rd April 1966
The weddings of the Ransons of Bowlhead Green
1969, 1974 and 1992
The wedding of John Gunner & Kay Cottle, 26th September 1973
The wedding of Andrew Constable & Mary Lintott, 6th July 1974
Wedding at The Corner: Harry McNeilly and Jane Watson, 29th May 1976
A highland wedding: David Corbett & Peggy James, 26th September, 1976
The wedding of Peter John Goble & Teresa Ellen Boxall, 17th October 1981
The wedding of Michael and Debbie Spencer, 22nd May 1993
The wedding of Andrew Storey and Jillian Bird, 31st July, 1993
The Vicar's View
The wedding of Philip & Angela Traill, née Burry, 11th September, 1993
The wedding of Stephen and Julie Langley, 9th September, 2000
The weddings of the Hall Brothers: 16th October 2004 & 1st April 2005
The Wakeley Weddings, 2006, Joe and Melissa
The wedding of Simon Treadwell and Anne Finnerup, 23rd May 2015
The wedding of Peter and Jacqueline Rickenberg, 30th June 2018
The Ultimate Wedding Gift...
On the 16th July 1702, Thomas Francis married Sarah Wheeler in Farnham.
Two days beforehand on the 14th July 1702, a document was signed which was a marriage settlement (dowry) on Pitlands Farm (now Punch Bowl Farm) where Nicholas Wheeler has given Thomas Francis, Pitlands Farm "and all tenements, messuages, stables etc" on his daughter Sarah Wheeler.
Beats being given a toaster!
