Abbreviation in Howard marriage

SeaCopRimmer · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:06 pm Post subject:

Found this on a Google search for "Age of Consent to Marry" ................ and I quote:

Most of the points have already been answered here and the age for marriage was indeed 12 for girls & 14 for boys, apart from when it was raised slightly during the Commonwealth years, but a person was still considered a minor until the age of 21 and would require the consent of a parent to marry at a younger age, this remained the law until 'Age of Marriage Act 1929' when the legal age was raised to 16 for both girls & boys and still requiring consent of parents under age of 21. This was changed when the age of majority was lowered to 18 in 1969 and the age of consent for minors was lowered with it. The age of consent, the legal age to have sexual intercourse was raised to 16 in 1929. So to answer Chloed's original question, a girl could legally marry at 12 in 1710 but in reality it was very rare apart from cases when a marriage was usually arranged to safeguard property or the like.

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Dotty · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:31 pm Post subject: oooer.....

Thankyou for clearing that up Gladys. How are you today>

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Yvonne · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 173 Location: Southport

Today received a copy of James & Alice's marriage from the Parish Register, but not much help. Witnesses were R ? Rymer (not very clear could even be R t) & John Wright.

Anyway, the marriage was by Banns.

As consent of Parents is given is there anywhere that the Parents names would be?

Thanks
Yvonne

BrianG · Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Posts: 248 Location: Cambridge UK

In my Shrewsbury genealogy wanderings I have come across a possible for my gtx2 grandfather Charles Griffiths. The evidence so far (admittedly circumstantial) points to his wife being 12 or 13 at the time of marriage in 1825

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unsworth · Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Posts: 203

could this have been about legal age of consent as in the 1800's a boy became a man legally at 21 but a girl/woman was not of legal age till 25. prior to that age she would need her fathers permission for just about everything. including her engagement.

Jane · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:53 pm Post subject:

This site may help with historical facts about marriage -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_license

Shame it was by banns. Sometimes marriage licences survive (I have one of them) Sorry I can't help - I hope someone may know the answer though

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Yvonne · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 173 Location: Southport

They did not marry very very young.

I have James' death cert in 1842 and it states he was 47, making his birth c1795.but 1841 census states 1796, same as his wife.

Alice death in 1869 states she was 76 making her birth c1793 but census 1841 states c1796, 1851 - 1792, 1861 -1795.

So looking at the Registers there is none that fits the bill even though it says btp .

To go further I need to find their parents, that is why I wondered if, it would be written down anywhere that they gave their consent to their childrens marriage.

BrianG · Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Posts: 248 Location: Cambridge UK

The 1841 census in particular is notoriously unreliable for ages., which were often rounded down to the nearest "5". This produces weird results when comparing ages with later censuses and certificates.

Also many people simply had no idea how old they were! Illiteracy was high, presumably innumeracy (?) even higher

Brian

Yvonne · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 173 Location: Southport

I have been told that maybe the parents could be in the Banns Book.

Would anyone know if St Cuthbert's had one for this period?

Also, they were farming Crowland Farm, so do you think there would possibly be a Will by James when he died in 1842, and by Alice in 1867.

Would Lancs Record Office hold anything for James' will?

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