Acorn Cottage <[email protected]> wrote: >Surely the legality of an "under-age" marriage does not depend on >parental consent but on the minimum legal age to marry. That will >depend on the date that the marriage took place. > >I am aware of a marriage in the 1930s where the bride was only 15 but >her father was a witness. This is still an unlawful marriage. Ruth Indeed, but we are dealing with the term "Of full age" which was rare after the 1870s, let alone the 1930s. The statements I'm challenging relate to the use of that term, so they certainly relate to the pre-1929 period when marriage was legal for under 16s. Brian -- Brian Pears (Joint List Admin - NORTHUMBRIA Mailing List)