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From: "Dave Mayall" <>
Subject: Re: Longest marriage celebrated tomorrow
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 11:14:16 +0100
References: <20050601110916.009208BCD11@smtp2.freeola.net> <20050601182645.901768BCD20@smtp2.freeola.net> <d7nhj7$tao$1@news.ks.uiuc.edu>


"Doug McDonald" <> wrote in message
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> Roy Stockdill wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>I find this extremely hard to believe.
>>
>> I don't see why you find it hard to believe but perhaps you didn't bother
>> to read the whole story?.
>
> So sorry ... What I find hard to believe is that they are the
> absolute OLDEST ... I just expect to find some say 108 year old
> pair married when they were 14, which gives 94 years o marriage.

Between 1906 and 1915, Three (yes, THREE) males aged under 16 were married..

The odds that even one has survived (and that his wife has also survived)
are negligible.

In the same time frame 63 males aged 16 and 735 aged 17 married.

Whilst marriage at 14 was possible before 1929, it was VERY rare.


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