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From: "Doug Gordon" <>
Subject: Re: [KYMASON-L] Age for marriage
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 17:28:31 -0400
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No, he was definitely alive. What it says to me is that he did not approve
of the marriage -- a much more "interesting" theory.

Doug

----- Original Message -----
From: "K. Haddad" <>
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Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: [KYMASON-L] Age for marriage


> They had to be 21 to marry on their own. The brother giving testimony
indicates the father was probably dead.
>
> Katheryn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Doug Gordon
> To:
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 5:08 PM
> Subject: [KYMASON-L] Age for marriage
>
>
> In a marriage bond that I was looking at in Mason Co. for the year 1821,
> there was a statement that the woman's brother had come in an testified
that
> she had "attained the age of twenty one years". I thought that in those
days
> it was not uncommon to get married before 21. Anyone know what the
> regulations were?
>
> Is it possible that this is the age that one had to be in order to marry
of
> their own accord, whereas they could get married at a younger age with
their
> father's approval? Perhaps this is why the marriage bond and age
testimony
> was given in this case by the woman's brother instead of her father --
the
> father did not approve.
>
> Doug Gordon
>
>
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