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Would you be okay with listing their names and where they lived so we can look at the entry?

Not a problem, but Grandad's first name is -???, surname Cruddace.
Grandma, Esther (Cruddace) Clark, because of later re-marriage.
Address 17 Upper Archer Street, Darlington, England.

Thanks Groom, that's what I thought would have happened.
She was very inventive with dates. Apparently always insisted that my Dad was a new year baby, even though she registered his birth as 2nd January.
I remember my Mam baking a special birthday cake for my Gran, with silver balls showing 60.
She said Gran had to apply for a birth cert. and found that she wasn;t as old as she thought, but 1877 in the 1939 is stretching things too far. Perhaps Grandad was having a bit of fun with it. 

Colin

Up to what age did a girl need the consent of her father to marry?

I have found records where the girl is in her early 20's and married 'with the consent of her afther'
- so was the age of consent 25? - or was it a formal form of courtesy?

Not much help from Mr Google!

Were they by chance between approx. 1812 - 1837 ?

I think this is the period when pro-forma certificates were introduced and only relevant details needed to be entered. One of them being 'with the consent of ________ '. This was often filled in, even though it wasn't necessary.

Colin.

There's also the case of bound apprentices, many of whom were prohibited from marriage until bond conditions had been met, which was usually age 21 or after 7 years. It might be several years after that when they could afford to marry.

Colin

You're right to query this.
Daguerreotypes (1840's) & ambrotypes (1850's) were mirror images
of the subject so with men their waistcoats appear fastened on the wrong side.
You can see from this that's not the case so logically it would make it 1860's.
The clothes style is typical 1850's/60's.
My concern are the scratches which would be unusual to say the least on an albumin print (1860's)
& is more common on an ambrotype, so have you grabbed this from the internet or do you have it?
If the former it may have been reversed by someone & is in fact an ambrotype.
Very good facial reconstruction Tomkin.

I love browsing this board, and am amazed at some of the results. Along the way I pick up some hints and facts, but Jim1 has managed to confuse me. I see this photo as a mirror image as the waist coat is buttoned the wrong way.

Have I got things wrong again?

Colin