Wedding In Papeete
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A WEDDING of great interest was solemnized at Papeete on July 6, when Mademoiselle Gwendolyne Walker, daughter of Monsieur and Madame William Walker, was married to Monsieur Henri Leverd.
The bride, on her father’s side is dir ectly descended from William Henry, one of the first missionaries sent out by the London Missionary Society and who arrived at Tahiti on board the “Duff” in 1797; and from another early missionary, John Muggridge Orsmond to whom mod em scholarship is indebted for what know ledge is available of ancient Polynesian lore, ritual and history in the Society Islands. On her mother’s side Mile.
Walker traces her ancestry to the royal clan of Opoa, in Ra’iatea.
Monsieur Leverd is a nephew of a scholar of the same name who was a, deep student of Polynesian antiquities and languages.
The wedding ceremony at Bethel Chapel. Papeete was folowed by a hand some reception at the Blue Lagoon Hotel.