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Subject: Age minima - marriage witnesses
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 14:40:46 -0800


Hello West Riding listers,

Greetings. I need you kind expertise again.

The clues about a family's history that marriage witnesses can yield, I
guess, are a story in their own right. At the moment the strong
possibility of a link between two families hangs on the age of one of the
witness at a wedding in Hatfield, near Doncaster in 1874.

Was 14 too young to be a legal witness? What was the minimum age
that a person was allowed to be an official witness in 1874?

Many thanks,

Aye

John Harris
in a cloudy, damp, dank, cold, wintery-autumnal Milton Keynes (complete
with concrete cows)

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