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Births, marriages & deaths

One of the mainstays of local newspapers are the birth, marriage and death notices and the Gloucester Journal was no exception.  The column was started in in the early 1800s and it went on to become a regular feature until the newspaper went to a pictorial publication in the 1930s.  The notices presumably operated in the same fashion as do the modern newspapers, so a fee would have been paid to have the information placed and it is probable that there was also a limit of the number of words or characters.

GA Ref.No: GJ/1839