Albert Henry Ponting + Alma Maria Edwards

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Albert Henry Ponting
18721948
Birth: 14 December 1872 30 31Bath, Somerset, ENG
Death: 25 December 1948Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
1841
Birth: about 1841 28 28Maddington Wiltshire England
Death:

Facts and events

Religious marriage 13 October 1945
Note: Lutwyche Methodist Church
Wedding Albert and Mrs Edwards
Wedding Albert and Mrs Edwards

Note: THEY WED TO-DAY; 78 & 76 13/10/1945

THEY WED TO-DAY; 78 & 76 13/10/1945

They met for the first time just over two years ago. Mrs. Edwards revealed last night that her future husband's music attracted her to him. Mr. Ponting is organist at the Spiritual Church in Logan Road, South Brisbane. Mrs. Edwards met him there when she attended a service.

Three children of the bride, two daughters of the groom's, and some their 25 grandchildren will at tend the wedding at 4 p.m. to-day. Silver-haired Mrs. Edwards will wear a lilac frock and a spray of pansies on her shoulder. Fifty-year-old Mrs. L. Rickman will attend the bride, and Mrs. Edwards' son-in-law, Mr. Tom Harris, the groom.

In his flat at Windsor, Mr. Ponting last night smiled over his tea cup. 'No more tea I make my self,' he said. 'I think this will be a shock to my son when he returns from Thailand,' he added. Driver Albert Henry Ponting has been in a Siam prison camp for more than three years. He is now on his way home.

Albert and Alma
Albert and Alma

Note: Courier Mail Saturday 13 October 1945
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