Thank you Dave. Eveline ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Annal" <[email protected]> To: "Eveline Clarke" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [WOR] Marriage Age > Hi Eveline > > It was legal (girls could be married at 12 until as late as 1929!) but > extremely rare by the mid nineteenth century for someone this young to > marry. The average at marriage for women remained at around 26 until very > recent times. > > Cheers, Dave > > Dave Annal > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eveline Clarke" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 11:24 AM > Subject: [WOR] Marriage Age > > >> Hi >> >> Is anyone able to tell me if it was legal for 13 year old girls be be >> married in 1857. I have only just realised (although I have had it on >> the computer for at least 2 years) that my 2x Great Aunt Aunt was married >> 8 months before her 14th birthday. >> >> Regards >> >> Eveline >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: > 269.17.13/1205 - Release Date: 31/12/2007 15:32 > >