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From: Barbara Wyley <>
Subject: Re: [EoLFHS] Legal Age of Marriage?
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:29:29 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <002301c2d38d$cc27b900$a0d46451@pbncomputer>


Hello, Ian.

From Hardwick's Marriage Act of 1753 until the Age of Marriage Act of
1929, the legal age of marriage was, for boys, fourteen, and, for
girls, twelve. Marriage of persons under twenty-one required parental
consent.

Barbara Wyley
in Kaitaia,
New Zealand

--- "ian.gcooper" <> wrote: > Hi All
>
>
> Does any one know what was the legal age that a woman could get
> married in the 1847. As I have a Mary Felmingham which According to
> the 1881 & the 1891 she was born about 1835 and with her marriage on
> the IGI index 1847 makes her about 12 years when she married George
> Parker and as I also have her daughters birth certiffacate Charlotte
> 1850 which makes her about 15 years old when she had her.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ian Cooper (East of London FHS 9974, Norfolk FHS 7842)
>
>
>
>
> My Family History WebPage is:
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ian.cooper277/index.htm
>
>
>


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