Hello, I've been looking at a couple of marriage licenses and was wondering whether when it states an age eg of '25 years and upwards' does that mean the person is actually 25 or is at least 25 at the time of marriage - hope the question makes sense!! Thanks Joan

Hi again Joan - I've always taken it to mean "at least 25", as you also do, in the same way as "21 and upwards" means "at least 21/full age" - but I do wonder why age 25 was significant. Might need some research! Celia Renshaw in Chesterfield, Derbys PS How nice it is to have Derbysgen back and active again - it's been very quiet. On 9 November 2016 at 16:30, Joan M <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've been looking at a couple of marriage licenses and was wondering > whether > when it states an age eg of '25 years and upwards' does that mean the > person > is actually 25 or is at least 25 at the time of marriage - hope the > question > makes sense!! > > Thanks > > Joan > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >