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Marriage at Thirteen??
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MarilynB | Report | 5 Nov 2007 16:10 |
A silly question maybe but I have a marriage of a Thomas Winter in 1768 to Bridget Nicholson in Orton, Westmorland and although I think I may have found Thomas Baptism in Orton in 1745, another one I have been informed about is one in Morland born/baptised in 1755. How likely is it to be the second one, or even in 1768 is this a bit TOO young, I have been told that marriages could take place even at that age with their parents permission, saying that the first child was born/baptised 1768 so he would have had to father a child at that age too. A bit too much to ask maybe??? |
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Jane Gateshead Girl | Report | 5 Nov 2007 16:45 |
I'm not sure about the marraige age at that time but an ancestor of mine - also from Westmoreland appears to have had her first child at 11!! Maybe they started early in Westmoreland - it must be all that fresh farm air!! |
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ErikaH | Report | 5 Nov 2007 16:56 |
The legal age for marriage for girls was 12.....boys, 14, until the early 20th. century |
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MarilynB | Report | 5 Nov 2007 17:02 |
Thanks a lot both of you, that has helped a lot. So its a definite possiblity. |
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Janet 693215 | Report | 5 Nov 2007 17:41 |
Just because a baptism took place does not mean that the child was still an infant. Sometime parents waited and had a batch of children baptised at the same time and occasionally if they didn't get on with the vicar they wouldn't baptise the children until a more agreeable one came along. They could, of course, have changed their religious allegience. |
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MarilynB | Report | 5 Nov 2007 18:51 |
Thanks for that Janet, the list of the Thomas's is very helpful, I visited Kendal Record Office two weeks ago and got the list of Orton Winters from the parish records. |
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MarilynB | Report | 5 Nov 2007 20:05 |
That brilliant, just what I need |
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