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The Wentworth Diggings - A Marriage Certificate, A Gold Miner's…
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Melbourne
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11-Dec-2017
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The Wentworth Diggings - A Marriage Certificate, A Gold Miner's Marriage Certificate signed by John Dunmore Lang (1799 - 1878), Letterpress, signed, inscribed and dated 'Twelfth day of April, 1864' 30 x 25 cm. Text includes '(Copy of) Certificate of Marriage. I, John Dunmore Lang, being Seniors Minister of the Scots Church, Sydney, do hereby certify that I have this day at the Scots Church duly celebrated the marriage between Heinrich Mohrman, bachelor, Goldminer, Wentworth Diggings, and Elizabeth Ross, spinster. Lang was the first prominent advocate of an independent Australian nation and of Australian republicanism.
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