Marriage
The Historic St. Mary's church was consecrated on October 28, 1680, with Rev. Richard Portman and all other English inhabitants of the fort. The first marriage registered at the historic St. Mary's church, Chennai(formerly Madras), India, is that of Elihu Yale. He married Catherine Hynmers, a widow, in 1680.
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Famous quotes containing the word marriage:
“But most thro’ midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“With my desire to write he seemed in full sympathy, and in urging our early marriage he argued that my first necessity was leisure in which to develop and to master my craft. It appeared to me that with such a man as teacher and guide I could not fail, and it was in a queer mixture of young love and vaulting ambition that I became a wife.”
—Rheta Childe Dorr (1866–1948)
“Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)