Mary Just about marriage ages there are a number of differing accounts and views re average Irish marriage ages but you may find this book Ireland -A New Economic History 1780-1939 by Cormac Ó Gráda interesting. A preview is available on google books. See page 9 and following where he discusses marriages ages and rates. Clare ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Simpson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; "Rootsweb Cork" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 1:50 PM Subject: [IRL-KERRY] Baptism searches > May I try and trawl other's collective experience / and / or knowledge? > > Has anyone out there, when researching parish registers, whether > on-line or in the archives, had experience of a child not having been > named on an entry? Rather being entered as " son or daughter - or > child - of xxxx ( usually father's name only ) " ?? I have come > across this with Scottish parish registers but don't know whether or > not it happens with Irish registers also. > > It sometimes makes confirmation of a particular person that you are > looking for difficult if they are registered without a first name. > > Also, whilst I do know that we are instructed to view all given ages > with a lot of scepticism, and the normal thing to do is to assume that > the people concerned were older - sometimes a lot older - than we > had believed, has anyone any experience of somebody actually being > younger? > > And in the Irish marriage registers - especially for the early to mid > 1800s, were the couple youngsters, say in the 18 - 24 age group, or > did they marry later in age? I know that by the end of the 1800s and > into the early 1900s, people seemed to be a bit older - especially the > men ( what with waiting for the farm etc., ) but I am wondering if it > was more normal that they were youngsters. > > Mary > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 425 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message