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Wedding dress from 1874 can still be worn by bride’s great-great-granddaughter – Stuff.co.nz
A bridal outfit kept for a baby who never knew her mother has been treasured by her family for nearly 150 years.
Tricia Jamieson has tears in her eyes as she recounts the story of her great-great-grandmother’s royal blue wedding dress.
But this isn’t just a story she is wearing the bridal outfit that Ann Chambers sewed together for her marriage to William Ward nearly 150 years ago.
Two years later she died in childbirth, having a daughter, Jamieson says.
I think the amazing thing is that he hung on to the dress.
Tricia Jamieson from Stratford has inherited her great-great-grandmother’s handmade wedding…
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