On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:49:20 +0000, Theresa Green wrote: > Thanks for this information, but does anyone have any idea if it were > fairly commonplace for girls to marry at 12? I have several conflicting Not commonplace, that's for sure. Marriages at that age were often between the offspring of two wealthy families. Marriages to cement political alliances, and whatnot. That doesn't mean that such marriages occurred only among the landed gentry, but were somewhat rarer in the working classes. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" If you ain't sticking your knives in me, you will be eventually Monsoon - Robbie Williams