Genealogy Chat

How weird! I tried too, wonder what the problem is? This is what I wanted to say! I believe it was 21, although I seem to remember reading that a girl could marry at the age of 12, with her parents permission, and a boy at the age of 14. If my memory serves me correct, it stayed like this until about 1929, when the age at which they could marry, with parents permission, was changed to 16, but the full age remained at 21. It then stayed like this until relatively recently, when the full age was reduced to 18. Hope this helps. If I've got anything wrong, I'm sure someone will correct me?

Thanks guys, got all messages, appreciate all your efforts to get in touch with me! Steph

Thanks Stan, Stephanie did get my reply although like you I had to put it on as a new topic. Seems to have worked this time.

I tried to add to both Stephanie's and Kathleen's postings, and got exactly the same problem - requiring me to add a title when there is no title box above the box for adding replies. What is going wrong? In case this message gets through, the answer is that the age of majority then was 21, even though men could marry at 14, and women at 12. Because of the lack of documentary evidence of age, people who looked 21 could often get away with it without producing any consent. Stan