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Article: The marriage of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Jessie Walmisley.
- Article from:
- Black Music Research Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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On the last Saturday of 1899, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor married Jessie Sarah Fleetwood Walmisley in his parish church at Selhurst, near Croydon, England. The witnesses who signed the registration were his mentor Herbert Walters and the bride's father, Walter Milbanke Walmisley. This apparently normal arrangement followed some very tense months; Jessie's family had been vehemently opposed to the marriage and had done all in its power to prevent it. Finally, on the day before the ceremony, Mrs. Walmisley invited Coleridge-Taylor to the family home in nearby Wallington, where she and her husband shook his hand in a formal gesture of acceptance if not of warmth (Coleridge-Taylor ...