The top card is a small folding embossed card with elegant silver script to celebrate the wedding of Emma Grace Sheat and Fredrick George Early on 27 November 1913. Fred farmed in the Greendale area of Canterbury. Fred was the brother of my maternal grandmother Ivy. Emma was my maternal grandfather George’s sister. The Early and Sheat families had a brother and sister marry a brother and sister from the other family. Hence the shared relationships. ‘With Mr & Mrs F. G. Early’s Compliments’
The card below was sent to my Grandmother Ivy Early from her Aunt Lucy Millicent Waby. The date, April 17, 1906, records Lucy’s marriage to Archibald Peak, a gifted musician and solicitor, active in the Methodist Church. Note the cupid’s arrow used to ‘strike out’ Lucy’s maiden name on both cards.
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