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From: Don McArthur <>
Subject: RE: [MLN] Isobella INGLIS married @ 12y in 1791 ?
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:29:25 +0200
In-Reply-To: <003a01c19ec8$87223ba0$afdfc6cf@pavilion>


Just to clarify this. This girl was baptised at one day old. That would
have put her marriage - if the same - two & half weeks before her 12th
birthday.

One of the subscribers let me know that the marriage age in Scotland was
increased from 12 years only in 1928 ! So I'm starting to think this
actually happened.

The double baptisms were twins, although the first set were born on
different days. Laborious. Also the IGI is mistaken in the double names of
the last set of twins.

Thanks for all your responses.

Don McArthur.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eileen [mailto:]
> Sent: 16 January 2002 22:01
> To:
> Subject: Re: [MLN] Isobella INGLIS married @ 12y in 1791 ?
>
>
> Don:
>
> I checked the IGI and noticed two things.
> 1. The entry for Isobella is a Christening. That doesn't mean
> that she was
> born close to that date. She could have been several days,
> months or years
> old at that time.
> 2. On the list of children of William Inglis and Isobella High, I saw two
> occasions of two children being Christened at the same time - 1773 and
> 1784.
>
> Don't forget that there was a fee for entering the Christening into the
> Parish Records, so many families did it when they could afford it.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Eileen
>
> > I know this sounds ridiculous, but all the evidence suggests I
> have found
> > the marriage of a girl a few days before her 12th birthday. Was this
> even
> > legal then ?
>
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