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From: "Anne Peat" <>
Subject: Re: Re Sharp
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 13:55:52 +0100


This often happens Sylvia.
It was simpler to say you were 21 - then you didn't need parental permission
- and before everyone was literate, people were a bit vague about their
actual age anyway!
Anne

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>From: Sylvia Wilmot <>
>To:
>Subject: Re Sharp
>Date: Sat, Oct 4, 2003, 12:32
>

> Re my message about Elizabeth Sharp and her marriage to George Willis in May
> 1878 in Thaxted. I have found a family that fits with the Sharp family on
> the 1861 surname listing for Dunmow and Elizabeth Anne is shown as 4 months,
> I checked with FreeBMD and sure enough Elizabeth Anne Sharp was born Dec
> 1860 in Dunmow, so that makes her only still 17 and a half when she married,
> not 21 as on the certificate. So a few pork pies were told (unless my maths
> is completely wrong)
> Sylvia
>

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