1935 – [HONEYMOON]
Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred O'Brien latter being better known as Miss Grace Morris of Mudgee) are back in Sydney after their honeymoon tour of India. They returned from Bombay last week by the Moldavia. They have had a most enjoyable and interesting trip; the most interesting places they visited were Udiapore, Acra, Delhi, Peshawar, through the Khyber Pass into Afghanistan, Benares, Cawnpore, Lucknow and Calcutta. They will stay in Sydney for a few weeks surfing before returning to their station home, 'Goodiman.'
Source: MG - Thursday 14 February 1935
These are thought to be photos from Grace and Wilfred's honeymoon trip to India.
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1935 - A GREAT TRIP Letter to Gulgong FriendA GREAT TRIP
Letter to Gulgong Friend
WRITING to a friend in Gulgong, Mrs O'Brien (nee Miss Grace Morris, of Mudgee), wife of Mr Wilfred O'Brien, of 'Goodiman,' Gulgong, states that she and Mr O'Brien had a great trip to India, where they now are.
'We like India,' Mrs O'Brien wrote, 'what we have seen of it so far, and we have certainly wasted no time. After a few days in Bombay we went to Udiapur, a very beautiful place about 800 miles from Bombay. We saw the palaces, etc., and then came on to Agra, where some of the most wonderful sights of the world are to be seen. From here we will go further north to Delhi, Lahore, Rawalpindi and Kashmir, then we will start south-east to Benares, towards Calcutta, and it will depend on just what time is left then, for our next plans. At Udiapur out of a population of 50,000 people there are only six white families. 'The train travelling is good. Up to date we have travelled about 1,300 miles by train. The hotels are very good. 'The weather is lovely, the only time the heat was almost too much for us was at Adelaide. I have never known anything like it. Melbourne and West Australia were nice places and Colombo is a beautiful place. We motored to Kandy, a place in land about 70 miles. It was a pretty drive. We saw the rice growing, also tea, cocoa and rubber trees. 'The native bazaars are of great interest, most of these we saw whilst at Colombo. Native life is very strange. We are in Delhi and have seen some very wonderful sights. The further north we go the cooler it gets. By the time we finish our travelling we will be away up the top of India. 'Travelling here is very expensive.'
Source: Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative (NSW : 1890 - 1954) Thursday 24 January 1935 p 12 Article
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1935 - Intimate Jottings Did You Know That—
MR. AND MRS. WILFRED O'BRIEN have returned from honeymoon in India. . . Such romantic places as Udaipur and Agra visited . . . Also penetrated Khyber Pass to Afghanistan . . . Couple intend spending some weeks in Sydney en route to station home, Goodiman. Before marriage Mrs. O'Brien was Grace Morris of Mudgee.
Source: The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982) Saturday 23 February 1935 p 27 Article
See also:
- Honeymoon - Sydney to Perth via sea
- Honeymoon - India
