£250
Gretna Green Marriages. 1866-85 Covers, letters and ephemera concerning the Lang family who conducted weddings at Gretna Green, including 1866 handwritten and printed marriage certificates both signed by Simon Lang, letters requesting copies of marriage certificates or registers, information about a runaway marriage in the year 1791, letter regarding the rule that marriages are only valid if one party has been resident in Scotland for at least 21 days, a request by a collector for an unused marriage certificate for which he encloses 6d, printed notice "One Pound Reward for the marriage register of Edward Gascoigne supposed to be married between 1670 & 1685 in Lancashire or towns bordering on Lancashire", etc. An interesting collection, all written up on pages, sixteen with postally used covers. (23+).
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