Could anyone advise the official minimum legal marriage age (if there was one) in above centuries for women. Think it could be helpful for research purposes. Many thanks! Frances

"Before Hardwicke's Marriage Act of 1753 there was no lower legal age of marriage, except during the 1650's when it was 16 for men and 14 for women. In 1753 it was fixed at 14 for men and 12 for women and remained at that until the Age of Marriage Act 1929 when it was raised to 16 for both." Above taken verbatim from The Family Tree Detective by Colin D Rogers Ray --- On Mon, 8/9/08, Fran Vose <fvinport@charter.net> wrote: From: Fran Vose <fvinport@charter.net> Subject: Re: [Ess] mARRIAGE AGE - 1600'S, 1700's, 1800-1850 for women To: essex-uk@rootsweb.com Date: Monday, 8 September, 2008, 9:45 PM Could anyone advise the official minimum legal marriage age (if there was one) in above centuries for women. Think it could be helpful for research purposes. Many thanks! Frances ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message