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Suffolk / Patience the minor
« on: Tuesday 28 November 23 04:45 GMT (UK) »
I have been searching for Patience Barber's birth or baptism records. Her marriage Sep 1836 to Henry Soden in Lambeth M/sex says she is married with consent of John Barber, father of the said minor.
All her Middlesex census returns state she was born in Chediston Suffolk, somewhere within the years of 1813 to 1822. Census of 1841 Patience is 20 years (rounded down) in 1851 - 32y, 1861- 39y, 1871 - 58 and in 1880 is 66 on her death cert and 67 in the newspaper death notice.
But the only transcription record so far is a baptism in Chediston of 23 Oct 1812 to parents John and Ann Maria Barber which makes her 24 when she married. Would this age be too old to be a minor ? Both the Banns of March 1836 then Sep 1836 also say she is a spinster minor.
Thanks Louise
All her Middlesex census returns state she was born in Chediston Suffolk, somewhere within the years of 1813 to 1822. Census of 1841 Patience is 20 years (rounded down) in 1851 - 32y, 1861- 39y, 1871 - 58 and in 1880 is 66 on her death cert and 67 in the newspaper death notice.
But the only transcription record so far is a baptism in Chediston of 23 Oct 1812 to parents John and Ann Maria Barber which makes her 24 when she married. Would this age be too old to be a minor ? Both the Banns of March 1836 then Sep 1836 also say she is a spinster minor.
Thanks Louise