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Witchypoo

05-07-2008, 01:24 AM

MarkJ

05-07-2008, 01:40 AM

There is a thread about full age here -
http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26986
which should help answer your question.

Mark

Tederator

05-07-2008, 03:34 AM

Can anyone help me with a dilema.... I have recently acquired some marriage certificates where the age is shown as Full... How can I find out what years that the age you could marry. Strange question maybe... but we have all wondered it at sometime.

Regards

Witchypoo

I have one of these in my Ancestral line, my Great Grandmother, born in 1848 married in 1867, married at age 19, on her marriage certificate she was stated to be a Minor and her husband Of Full Age, her husband's profession was stated to be a 'Comedian', I've wondered about that seeing as how he was in the Royal Navy three years before he got married, could have been a bit of a joker I suppose.

Cheers

Ted.

Hugh Thompson

05-07-2008, 04:36 AM

Found this the other day,cant remember what year it was in tho':confused: possibly 1845

West Briton Newspaper

At the Registrar's Office, Holsworthy, on the 30th ult.,
Mr. JAMES ALLIN, aged 84, to Miss ALICE FANSTONE, aged 13 ???:confused::confused:

oxon57

05-07-2008, 04:04 PM

This is speculative, I have not explored other possibilities, but that one could be a case of "Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers".

1845 looks right - with Alice as "Fanson" instead of Fanstone, there's a match in the GRO index in 1845 with a Holsworthy reference.
There is then a dead James Allin with a Holsworthy reference in 1849.
On the 1851 census there, we find a widowed Alice Allin, aged 30.

So - I suspect that "13" may be a typo for 23. Given the normal accuracy (or inaccuracy) of ages on both marriage records and census returns, that's pretty close.