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1. Essay on Local Marriage Customs (continued)

   

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   not give up until three or four o'clock in the morning and every[one] would return home. The hauling home would not be for two weeks as all the people [that was] at the wedding would come to the bride house the next Sunday and give a return dance for the bride and it was called the brides dance. The next day was the hauling home. The groom would come for the bride on a horse and she would sit. By the time he would get to his home all his friends would be there to greet the bride and a dance afterwards. The brides flitting would go after her on a horses cart and a married man and woman with it. The flitting consisted of a large bog oak chest and a feathered thick filled with feather of the geese that was on her fathers land and a mill blanket made from the wool that grew on her fathers sheep also a few dozen sheets, pillowcases, towels and tablecloths [that was] made from the flax that grew on her fathers fields. Everything was put in the chest. The chest was covered by a red quilt made by the hands of her mother.

   

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. rites of passage (~573)
            1. marriage (~4,283)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Gunning

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Coole, Co. Westmeath

   Informant

   Mrs Gunning

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Coole, Co. Westmeath