Genealogy Chat

I've just seen one from a list I belong to where the bride was around 21 and the groom in his seventies!!! Lisa

hiya all...thanks for the replies..feel better now!! They was both unmarried before. Peter i dnt have a lot to go on im afraid..i know their names were Charles Edward Hall and Margaret/martha Jane Watson..hence finding the marr in 1901. Know they Had my grt grandad aslo Called Charles Edward Hall on 11 march 1907 in Manchester,says they married june 5th 1901 was gona try find there eldest child evelyn now which would give bit more proof as such.on the marr cert it has no fathers details for charles,martha's dad is Robert ??? Watson. The ?? looks like hoeby but im not 100% on that,it says he's a joiner.i cant make out the church either..just Manchester,one of the witnesses is a Harry Watson(possibly a brother??)calculated their years of birth roughly as charles 1849 and Martha as 1868.any help greatly appreciated.many thanks.xx

Also, the age difference could be the other way round - i.e. an elder lady marrying a younger man. My gt-gt-uncle Joseph married in 1848 at age 18 - to a woman 22 years his senior! They had one child, born the year after the marriage (when he was 19 and she was 41). I thought that one of the ages must have been a mistake when I first found them, but their age difference was consistent across 3 censuses. So... the 'toy-boy' existed even in those days!!

Hi Cherie, From some of the Certs I have, and the threads I have read on these pages,it seems more the norm than the unusual. At the age of 40, my Gt. Grandfather married my Gt Grandmother, aged 22 at the time. She was his second cousin, 3rd Wife and mother to his 6 children. Well the 6 that I know of. I am now trying to find out how many he had with Nos 1 & 2. They would be the 'Talk of the Town' if they tried that now. Christine.

Hello Cherie, It's quite possible! My great grandfather remarried someone younger when in his fifties. I have women in my tree giving birth in their early fourties. So these things did of course occur. Hope it helps you decide! Jenny

Could possably be a second marriage for both or if they had been together for years they might have never married but then decided to marry for the children and inheratence - I'm not sure if illigitamate children could inherate

Not that unusual I think. Was she a spinster? If so perhaps she was the daughter who stayed home to care for aging parents and then saw an older man as her best chance of security for the future? It was quite possible for her to have children in her forties. Another possibility is that she was actually a bit younger but lied so that the age gap didn't appear quite so huge.

ordered a marr cert and it came today...not sure if ive got the right one?? says the groom is 52 and the bride 33..just seem mighty old especially in 1901. or does anyone know someone who married late also. just means they were in their fourties and sixties when their last child was born in 1908/1909. any ideas??