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Subject: Re: Bagley
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 07:48:12 -0400 (EDT)


In a message dated 97-05-01 03:33:46 EDT, (Karen Mullian)
writes:

<<
> If John Bagley, born 1572, married an illegitimate daughter of Edmund,
Lord
> Dudley, as so many accounts have it, Lord Dudley started his wicked ways
> very young. This makes him a grandfather at 35. Given the later onset of
> puberty in the sixteenth century, there's barely time for this to be
> possible biologically. >>

In that time period people had to marry young and produce heirs at an early
age. The reason? Short life expectancy. 35 isn't so young to be a
grandparent. If one has a child at 17, then that child could also have a
child at 17 or 18, and -- voila! -- a grandparent at 35!

Linda

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