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From: "John Henley" <>
Subject: Re: [Ess] Charles GIBBONS marriage 1844
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:43:15 +0100
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Hello Jim,
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Gibbons" <>
> The 1861 Census shows my Ancestor Charles GIBBONS married with 6 children
in
> Stambourne, Essex. He was born in 1831 and his first born was 16 years
old.
> This made him 13-14 years old when he married Mary in 1844. My first query
> to those of you that know about these things is: -
> > Would he be allowed to marry at such an early age, or has there been a
> mistake somewhere?
The minimum permitteds age for marriage was raised in July 1929 to 16 from
14 (boys) and 12 (girls)
>
> The marriage index also shows the reference as Volume 12, Page 672a. Does
> anybody know what the 'a' is for and what it may mean. When I order the
cert
> should I be ordering Page 672 as well? I am genuinely confused. Any advice
> would be appreciated.> > Jim

Pages with suffixes, a, b, c, &c. are supplementary pages inserted into the
run of [loose-leaf] copies after the main run has been paginated. In the
marriage records it usually means that a quarterly return was received by
the Registrar-General after (sometimes a very long time after) the returns
had been collated and paginated. If they were returned after the quarterly
index had been compiled, then a handwritten insertion into the index had to
be made, sometimes at the foot of the appropriate column, sometimes not
appearing in all copies of the Index.
For a full explanation see Mike Foster's book: "A Comedy of Errors".
HTH
Cheers

John Henley
(still catching up on masses of emails )
using Archive CDs - see
http://www.archivecdbooks.org
and researching (and not finding much time for - but always very glad to
hear of any)
HENLEY, PARKER, PRENTICE, SECKER, RAPER, DURDEN
[IN London/Middx./Essex/Suffolk]
ROLFE, (O)RAFFERTY, EVANS, PARSONS, SYMONDS [IN Berks/Hants/Wilts]
HILL [IN Staffs/Cambs/Berks]


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