Marriage Information:

Amy married Frank Farnell, son of James Squire Farnell and Margaret O'Donnell, on 12 Aug 1889 in St. Andrew's Cathedral, Macquarie St., Sydney, N.S.W., Australia ¹. (Frank Farnell was born on 10 Sep 1861 in Kissing Point, Ryde, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia ^{6 7} and died on 16 Jul 1929 in North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ^{8 9}.)

  Marriage Notes:

"On Monday afternoon in St. Andrew's (Anglican) Cathedral, Sydney, Miss Amy Briscoe Cox, daughter of the late H. E. Cox, of Pyrmont, was married to Mr. Frank Farnell, M.L.A. The service was accompanied by appropriate organ selections; and the marriage was solemnised by Dean Cowper. A large number of guests, the relations and friends of the contracting parties, occupied rows of seats on either side near the altar ; and the vergers were kept busily engaged in preventing too great a crush of spectators. Mr. Farnell, accompaned by his best man, and his groomsmen Messrs. James Cox and Percy K.Bowden, arrived at the church at 2.30 p.m., and were escorted to the vestry. About ten minutes later the bride, attended by six bridesmaids, was escorted to the altar. The bride's costume was of cream moiré, made with a long elegant train and a nicely fitting plainly made high bodice. An incroyable wreath of bridal flowers and long tulle veil, with a magnificent bouquet, completed a tasteful and rich, though simple toilette. The two chief bridesmaids (sisters of the bride) wore pure white plainly made but very elegant dresses of liberty silk, adorned with empire sashes of heliotrope surah ; millinery hats of white tulle trimmed with sprays of purple lilac and streamers of white ribbon, and carried lovely bouquets composed of purple violets, white camellias, hyacinths (white and purple), and maiden hair fern. Four little girls in attendance wore white liberty silk frocks, primrose sashes, and millinery hats of white net trimmed with sprays of yellow laburnam ; and all carried pretty baskets of blossoms and foliage At the conclusion of the ceremony the wedding party, numbering some 120, adjourned to Needs's Rooms, where an elegant dejeuner had been laid by an efficient staff of waiters from the catering establishment of Baumann, of Pitt-street. The tables (four in number) were artistically arranged ; the floral decorations being very pretty, and the combination of crystal, emerald, and ruby glass, white and pink camellias and fern fronds which was presented to the gaze, was very pleasing. The bride and bridegroom, with their nearest relatives, sat at the cross table, and immediately in front of them was placed an exquisitely-formed bridal cake upon a superb silver stand, at either side of which was a lovely bed of white and pink camellia blooms. Tho customary toasts having been honored the party broke up, but only to prepare for the ball which followed in tho evening, when the number of guests was increased to nearly 200. A merry evening was spent. The bridal bouquets and baskets of flowers used at the wedding were supplied by Searl, of King-street." ¹

  Marriage Information:

Amy also married James Abbott Farnell of Lilyfield, son of James Squire Farnell and Margaret O'Donnell, in 1934 in Randwick, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia ². (James Abbott Farnell of Lilyfield was born on 18 May 1878 in Ryde, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia ^{11 12} and died on 26 Apr 1959 in Lilyfield, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia ^{13 14}.)