In Years Gone By

This series of posts focuses on an A-Z theme for April in 2025. I have chosen events that occurred On This Day in April of years in the past. These events are recorded in my genealogy database.

On this day - 29th April

 

1914 - Marriage: Christopher Gerald HORGAN - First cousin twice removed

HORGAN—HUNTER.—At St. Augustine's Church. Spalding, on April 29, by the Very Rev. Father Doyle. Christopher G., son of Daniel Horgan, Esq., Gulnare, to Jane Anne, daughter of Mrs. T. Fitzpatrick, "Rock View." Spalding, and the late E. Hunter. Esq., Belalie (1)

WEDDING BELLS.

St. Augustine's Church, Spalding, was the scene of a very pretty but quiet wedding on Wednesday morning, ApriL 29, when Miss Jane Hunter, daughter of Mrs. Fitzpatrick, of "Rock View," Spalding, and the late Mr. Edward Hunter, of Belalie, and Mr. C. G. Horgan, son of Mr. Daniel Horgan, Gulnare, were united in marriage. 

The church was prettily decorated by friends of the bride and the church was filled with spectators to witness the ceremony, which was performed by the Very Rev. Father Doyle, Jamestown. Mr. Schell presided at the organ and played the "Bridal March" as the bridal party entered the church. The bride, who was given away by her stepfather, Mr. Fitzpatrick, looked handsome in her wedding gown of white satin, with over-dress of exquisitely-embroidered net. The court train was of silk net edged with valancenies, caught back at one corner, and ornamented with orange blossom, and the veil, which was beautifully worked, depended from a coronet of orange blossom. She carried a shower bouquet of white roses, dahlias and maidenhair fern, with long streamers of asparagus fern, and white satin ribbon. 

The bridesmaid, Miss M. Hunter, looked pretty in a frock of cream fine coating serge, trimmed with fancy buttons, and wide Limerick lace insertion, and white fur,and she wore a black velvet hat with white plume, and carried a bouquet of pink roses and fern, with streamers of pink ribbon. She also wore the gift of the bridegroom, a gold pendant, set with rubies. 

Mrs. Fitzpatrick (mother of the bride) wore a black silk costume, and a black velvet hat, with a large black lancer plums. The bridegroom was supported by his brother, Mr. G. Horgan, as best man. 

At the conclusion of the marriage ceremony a Nuptial Mass was celebrated and the newly-wedded couple left the church to the strains of the "Wedding March" and amid showers of rice and rose leaves, motored to the institute, where a delicious wedding breakfast was served, and the customary toasts honored. The bridal couple received many telegrams and were the recipients of a number of costly presents. The wedding cake was designed and made by Mr. Schell. Mr. and Mrs. Horgan motored via Clare to Riverton thence to Adelaide, where the honeymoon was spent, the bride travelling in a Donegal tweed coat and skirt, the latest with straps and buttons, and a Niger brown, hat, with long plumes of lemon shade. The bride's gift to the bridegroom was a gold albert and locket.(2)

Relationships

Christopher Gerald HORGAN (1886–1954)

• Born: at Tarlee, SA 1886

• Married: Ann Jane Hunter (1886–1943) on 29 April 1914 at Spalding, South Australia

• Died: 11 May 1954 at Beulah Park, South Australia

• Buried: 12 May 1954 at Centennial Park Cemetery

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Parents:

• Father: Daniel Horgan (1843–1916)

• Mother: Julia Evans (1848–1919

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Siblings:

Name    

Johannah Elizabeth Horgan SLATTERY	1873	12 Jul 1957 (Myrtle Bank)
Thomas Bernard Horgan	1875	7 Dec 1951 (Toorak Gardens)
John Michael Horgan	1876	8 Apr 1950 (Chandada)
Denis Michael Horgan	1878	30 Nov 1925 (Kapunda)
Daniel M. Horgan	1880	20 Mar 1919 (Mundoora)
Patrick James Horgan	1881	1 Mar 1908 (Gulnare)
George Joseph Horgan	19 Dec 1887	21 Aug 1939 (Gawler)
William Francis Horgan	1888	11 Jun 1919 (Adelaide)
Peter Maurice Horgan	29 Jun 1890	12 Jul 1950 (North Adelaide)

Children of Christopher Gerald Horgan & Ann Jane Hunter

John Maurice Horgan	25 Jul 1916 - 3 Jan 1977
Gerald Joseph Horgan	17 Nov 1918 - 1 Feb 1945
Mary Philomena Horgan (DELANEY)	27 Feb 1920  - 2 Aug 1978

Death and Burial

HORGAN. — On May 11, at his residence, 228 Beulah road. Beulah Park (late of Streaky

Bay and Red Hill) Christopher Gerald, loved husband of the late Jane Horgan, loving father

of John and Mary (Mrs. Douglas Delany), also Gerald (deceased), and loving grandfather

of Gerald and Michael. Aged 68 years. Requiescat in pace.(3)

Funeral notice 12 May 1954

 

1. 1914 'Family Notices', The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), 1 June, p. 14.  https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/6418676

2.  1914 'Family Notices', Southern Cross (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1954), 5 June, p. 8.  

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/167793491# 

3. 1954 'Family Notices', The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954), 12 May, p. 28 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/48113068# 

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