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Different age on marriage certificate
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Bryan | Report | 10 Feb 2009 12:22 |
Very interesting..Thanks so much for your input...wasn't she naughty !!! |
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Stevendeg | Report | 10 Feb 2009 01:38 |
I have a marriage certificate of my great grandparents. They were married in 1915 at Register Office so they swapped their ages! |
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KathleenBell | Report | 9 Feb 2009 23:50 |
My grandparents marriage certificate says he was 39 (he was 42) and it says she was 28 (she was 23), so hey presto, a 19 year age gap appears to be only 11 years. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 9 Feb 2009 23:30 |
My Mum always said she was born 1908 and when she wanted to marry in 1929 she was just short of 21 when they put the banns in altho she would have been 21 at the time of marriage. She told an elaborate tale of how she approached her mum & dad separately telling each one that the other said was alright with them if OK with the other parent. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 9 Feb 2009 23:19 |
OOPS yes people did lie about their ages and even made up a fathers name on the marriage cert to cover that they were illegitimate . |
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Kate | Report | 9 Feb 2009 23:18 |
It's quite possible - as with the census, there's a thing about family history, "the information given is only as accurate as the person giving it". She wouldn't have had to prove her age, I imagine and it is quite possible that she knocked a few years off her age. |
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Bryan | Report | 9 Feb 2009 22:50 |
Please can someone help ?? just got a marriage certif today, right person ,right parents, right sister as a witness but she is down as age 28 but she should be 34 ! the man she married was 31..do you think she lost a few years so as not to be the ''older 'woman ??.she married in 1946..i'm confued but know it's the right person...thanks alison..are the ages/dates often wrong ?? |