Ages on marriage certificate

[2shea]

Checking on an 1868 marriage cert, the bridegroom is shown as minor and the bride as full. At what age were you a full or a minor.  The bridgroom would have been about 17 having been born in 1851.
What permission did they need in those days. Why did they not put the actual age.  This is in the district of St Luke Middlesex.

[tarajobrien]

Hi 2shea


see this page for the answer

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,41920.0.html


Tara

[2shea]

Thanks for the referral - most interesting as further research shows that the bride in my case was about four years older than the groom but by the time of the 1881 census they were the same age and continued to be so thru to 1901.

Thanks