Premature births or wedding anticipation

[suttontrust]

I spent ages trying to find the background of Ethel who died in 1969.  She was ultra respectable, very keen on marriage - though I failed to find any record of her own marriage.  Her death certificate gave her father as George, with Ethel's surname.  Eventually I traced her through a different route and found she was illegitimate, no father named.
I've also got a 17 year old lad up in North Yorkshire who married his 22 year old girlfriend because she was pregnant - early 19th century.

[JillJ]

There certainly aren't enough fingers on one hand to count my lot!

Jill

[sandie]

I remember long ago, when I was a teenager, my mother was moaning about 'the younger generation' saying they were far more promiscuous than her generation, to which my grandmother replied 'you must have been a boring lot then, because it went on in my day.'  Needless to say my mother wasn't amused, but I thought my gran was really cool.  It was only when I started researching my tree that I found out why my gran felt the way she did, her first child was born a month before her wedding - I wonder if my mum ever knew that.

Sandie

[william james]

My i thought it was only my family who were naughty, but it seems every one is in the same boat.  i have 2 g g  aunts with children just after they were married. i have another who was illegitimate, and yet another who had 6 boys, but i have 7 names.
Don't you just love family tree?.
Wj