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Courting in the colony: finding a partner in 19th-century Australia

Courting in the colony: finding a partner in 19th-century Australia

February 13, 2025

Social life & customs, Victorian history:

The course of true love never did run smooth, but what was it like finding love in early colonial Australia?

Rev Pastor Abbott

Shonky celebrants and wonky marriages ….. Holt’s matrimonial agency and the Free Christian Church

May 24, 2021

Ask a librarian, Victorian history:

The Free Christian Church and Holt’s Marriage Agency first operated in Melbourne in the late 19th century. They were never far from controversy and the law.