Welsh Newspapers - "Roping Newlyweds", a Forest Custom ? (General)

by Gill , Thursday, February 19, 2015, 05:02 (3630 days ago) @ shepway

The story I got from my mother was that her grandmother ,Sarah Browning walked to St Johns Church Cinderford to be married to avoid the old custom of Viney Hill of roping the couple on the way to the church to make them throw money to the crowd.She married Robert Biddington Lowe 1st March 1873. As their first child was born the following month it must have been quite a tiring day!

Gill