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Topic: Was 15 too young to get married? (Read 609 times)
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Burrow Digger
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I have a Marion McNeill born 1822 in Campbeltown, and being married in 1837 to Peter McDiarmid. The first child, Isabella, was born in 1839.
Would marriage at 15, and being a mother at 17 have been a normal event to happen at that age in that time and place?
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joette
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Her "birth" date may have been a christening date & she may have been any age when she was christened.I have ancestors who christened their children in batches with some being four when christened-I thought she had birthed octoplets
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behindthefrogs
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The legal age for marriage changed from 12 to 16 in 1929 and so the answer is no it would not have been legal.
However are you working from a birth date or a baptism date? Baptisms even in the established church were often delayed sometimes for years and of course in some non-conformist churches, in particular the Baptists, would not take place until at least 14.
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Falkyrn
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The legal age for marriage changed from 12 to 16 in 1929 and so the answer is no it would not have been legal.
This occurred in 1837 and so the 1929 Act would not have come into force
The following is a quote from an 18th Century case
In 1715 for example, Sir George Downing and his wife Mary tried to get their marriage of fifteen years annulled. They argued that they had been forced into the marriage in their youth when Mary was only thirteen years of age, and had never wanted it or consented to it. It was established that the marriage had never been consummated, but because they had both been above the age of consent, which was twelve for a girl, and fourteen for a boy, and there had been no incident of adultery or cruelty, the case was dismissed with the following comment;
"...each party was consenting to the marriage, and was old enough to give such consent, according to the known laws of the kingdom...They were actually marry'd according to the form prescrib'd by the Church of England...they are therefore man and wife both by the laws of God and the land." (4)
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behindthefrogs
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Whoops
I need to learn to read. I thought it was 1937. Sorry
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Burrow Digger
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Thanks everyone for your replies. I'm going to assume that this marriage date & age is correct until I find anything that says different. 
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