Hello Everyone, At the November Meeting of the Hampshire Genealogy Society, Basingstoke Group, we had a Genealogical Quiz and one of the questions asked was:- 1754 Marriages solemnised in the Church of England became the main form of legal marriage after Lord ???? who's Marriage Act of 1753???? and the answer is Lord Hardwicke. Not knowing anything about this act, I looked it up on GOOGLE and found it most interesting to read. Quote Marriage Act 1753 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The act came into effect in 1754, and exempted Scotland and the Channel Islands ... took the Act as a personal insult towards him by the Lord Chancellor Lord Hardwicke. ... "The Scottish Case That Led to Hardwicke's Marriage Act". ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_Act_1753 On Rootsweb Mailing Lists you often hear "he could not have got married then, he was too young". The question now is, was he/they too young to get married, read all about it. Kind regards Barbara Lewis Mallyon Basingstoke, Hants. UK BarbaraMallyon@lewmal.co.uk

Hi Barbara, That is very interesting. I wonder how many people did marry with consent as minors at the age of 14, often we discount baptism's as not possibly belonging to a family as we consider the "wife" would have been too old to have children in that year! Bob -- Genealogy Web Database http://www.bobhutchins.me.uk http://www.roberthutchins.me.uk Bob recommends Linux Ubuntu 9.10 On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 11:02 +0000, Barbara Mallyon wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > At the November Meeting of the Hampshire Genealogy Society, > Basingstoke Group, we had a Genealogical Quiz and one of the questions > asked was:- > > 1754 Marriages solemnised in the Church of England became the main > form of legal marriage after Lord ???? who's Marriage Act of 1753???? > and the answer is Lord Hardwicke. > > Not knowing anything about this act, I looked it up on GOOGLE and > found it most interesting to read. > > Quote > Marriage Act 1753 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The act came into > effect in 1754, and exempted Scotland and the Channel Islands ... took > the Act as a personal insult towards him by the Lord Chancellor Lord > Hardwicke. ... "The Scottish Case That Led to Hardwicke's Marriage > Act". ... > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_Act_1753 > > On Rootsweb Mailing Lists you often hear "he could not have got > married then, he was too young". The question now is, was he/they too > young to get married, read all about it. > > Kind regards > > Barbara Lewis Mallyon > Basingstoke, Hants. UK > BarbaraMallyon@lewmal.co.uk > > --------------------------------------- > >From Kingsclere. ALL surnames in CAPITAL letter please. Christian name Lawrence surname LAWRENCE. > --------------------------------------- > If you get unsubscribed and did not ask to be unsubscribed, please email eng-hampshire-kingsclere-admin@rootsweb.com > --------------------------------------- > Make sure your Anti Virus Protection is updated and do a weekly backup of your files. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-HAMPSHIRE-KINGSCLERE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message