Have you tried searching 1841 and 1851 census index on Ancestry and just entering in Rockett Norfolk to see where there are clusters of the families with the earliest births ? Although there are post 1805 Rockett births at Scarning Wendling and Longham there are earlier ones living/born at Ovington, Wretham, Bunwell Tivetshall, Shipdham, and Carleton in Breckland/ South Norfolk which are early enough to have produced your 1805 birth. Ovington is the closest, just a bit south of Wendling near Saham Toney- you could work up the records from Ovington towards Wendling using google maps as your village guide. If it was me I would start with Fransham and Scarning Also wondered if this being read as Rickett or Pockett on some transcriptions or even Lockett . Good luck Rosie On 26/07/2011 07:13, Karen Hodges wrote: > Legally a boy could marry at 14 and a girl at 12 in these years. > > I am not sure that they needed parental permission seeing they were of legal > age. > > Karen > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Jan Rockett<jan.rockett@ntlworld.com>wrote: > >> I know this may seem a strange question but what was the age that a man had >> to get permission to marry and would this require a licence below 21? Jan >> >> >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message