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AGE AT MARRIAGE [DID THEY LIE]
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June | Report | 2 Jul 2005 13:47 |
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Hi Can anybody please tell me about this got marriage cert this morning has the age as full it was in 1863 was it 21 or 18 or something else . regards June As both of them was under age |
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Linda G | Report | 2 Jul 2005 13:48 |
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Think is was 21 that was what I was told. Linda |
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Merry | Report | 2 Jul 2005 13:52 |
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Just means 21 or more. My g-grandfather had ''full age'' and he was 57!! Sarah |
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June | Report | 2 Jul 2005 13:57 |
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Hi Linda + Sarah, Thank you for reply regards June |
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Victor | Report | 2 Jul 2005 14:25 |
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June I thinks we have all come across more than one occasion where the truth has been bent a little. Ages normally get altered to suit the age of the partner in a marriage. Neither of them wish to appear much older or younger than the other. Victor |
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June | Report | 2 Jul 2005 14:32 |
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Hi All, Thank you for that info i was getting a bit worried there regards June |
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Merry | Report | 2 Jul 2005 14:34 |
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Much more sophisticated to say 22 when you are 17, than to say 21 !! (too obvious!) Sarah |
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Carol | Report | 2 Jul 2005 14:39 |
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On 2 occasions, I have a fictional father entered on a marriage certificate when the person was born illegitimately. |
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Christine in Herts | Report | 2 Jul 2005 21:56 |
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My g-g-mother appears to have been born early in 1851 (in time for the census). In subsequent censuses she was: (1861) 9, (1871) 21, (1881) 27, (1891) 33, (1901) 43. When she got married in 1884 she shed a few years to be 26 (i.e. 1 year younger thatn the 1881 census, 3 years earlier!). This may have had something to do with the fact that her husband was only 20 when they married. Christine |
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