Love letters and contraceptive devices: What the NSW State Archives tell us about marriage l smh_andrew
He was twice her age and often away at sea, but who could blame the teenage Sarah Cox for falling for the silver-tongued Captain John Payne.
However, he also lavished his affections on other women, according to Dr Penny Stannard, a senior curator at the NSW State Archives. “Eventually, he would reaffirm his love for Sarah who, after chastising him, would accept him back. During their period of promise, Payne unexpectedly married a wealthy widow.”An outraged Cox sued Payne for breach of promise, winning £100 in the first case of its kind to be decided by a jury in NSW.
Gallery director Sheona White said the exhibition showed how marriage laws, social mores and fashions have followed changes in community attitudes to marriage.your life for yourself, then married life for women is better now," she said. Marriage also continues to lie at the heart of social stability, Dr Stannard said. “We’ve heard those conversations in recent times but going all the way back to Lachlan Macquarie’s proclamation in 1810 we hear it there as well.”
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