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If she said she was 20 when she married, it's probably true. She would still need the consent of her father until 21. It is also possible that she had lied to her intended about her age (either direction) and stuck to that figure for the wedding!

I've people in my lot claiming to be 21 at marriage and reverting to their real ages later; I have people who lied about their age by as much as 7 years and stuck to it for the rest of their lives ( the wife probably had a better memory! ) and one of my grandmothers could never remember her own age. She had knocked a couple of years off earlier in life, varied the number of years knocked off, and was surprised to find she had missed out on a couple of years pension when her original birth cert came to light. One ancestor aged only 3 years between censuses, while his wife aged the full ten. It makes a couple of years worth of adjustment perfectly normal!

Some register offices hand copy the original entry; others provide a photographic facsimile.

The ones I've had from Bolton register office seem to be the genuine article. The people there are much more helpful than the Liverpool ones it seems. While-you-wait service when I or my parents called in.

On one cert from there, my mum and I decided independently that the bride and one witness had been taught to write by the same person, or that the witness (Anne Swindley) had been taught to write her name by Ann Jones specially for the wedding. Neither version of "Ann" was anything like the registrar's writing, but there was definitely a similarity there.
Further research showed that both women came from the same small village in rural Cheshire.

I seem to have the opposite effect in my tree. People mention places which now have faded from view. Westleigh, for example, is just part of Leigh these days.
Marsh Green, a district in 1871, is just the name of a road today.

The Wigan area seems to have retained more of its district names in common use than many towns. The one I love, still seen on the destination boards of buses, is "Dangerous Corner".

I guess you are referring to the Henry at 18 Wheathill St Salford.

The scanned image for Henry has a line through the digit at the front of his age, making it difficuly to read. I've compared it with other digits written by the same chap, and I'm convinced it should read 81, making him born in 1799 or 1800.

In 1871, he is at 10 Burgess Buildings, Salford as a Hawker, with Mary, 62, b Manchester, Edward, son, 15, b Salford and Ann Hargreaves, married daur, 39, b Salford.

If this is the chap, it's no wonder you couldn't find his birth in 1810!