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ages on marriage details????HELP!
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Samantha | Report | 3 May 2004 22:13 |
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hi, this is probably a really stupid question - but when you lovely people out there do a search & find a marriage - does it have the ages of the people on there? i am trying to look up a dob for a person but all i have got is their name, who they married & when i have found a "date" for their birth but it means that they would have been 45 when they got married & had kids until they were 65! i think thats a bit far fetched but im not sure - cant find n e thing on free bmd / familysearch thanks for your time & patience sam |
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Unknown | Report | 3 May 2004 22:22 |
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Sam Sometimes ages are given on marriage certificates, sometimes it just says "of full age" which means old enough to be married without parent/guardian's consent. Very irksome! If no age is given, you can make rough assumptions that most folk married around 25-35. I have a youngest bride aged 16 in my tree, and an oldest groom of 47 - he fathered four children after the marriage. Most of the women in my family had children until they were around 42/43 unless they died earlier. Average number of children in a family was about 6-8, with gaps of about 2 years on average. |
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Jeanie | Report | 3 May 2004 22:41 |
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Sam, this evening I have been researching my gt.gt. grandmother and doing very well...except:on the 1881 census they have her as 47.On the 1901 they have her as 70 and on her death cert. in 1912 they have her as 73!!! Age is a movable feast in genealogy. |
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Richard in Perth | Report | 4 May 2004 06:00 |
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Samantha If you can find out when they died, the death index will have their age at death (if death was after 1866) and will have the birth-date (if death was after 1969). However, bear in mind that the accuracy of this depended solely on the memory/knowledge of the person who informed of the death, so once again, this info needs to be treated with caution until you have found the actual birth registration. Richard |
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