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From: Guy Etchells <>
Subject: Re:Minimum Age for Witnesses to Marriage?
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 08:06:31 +0000


Perhaps you don't think children of 7 were allowed to marry but the
facts speak for themselves.
A little research will open your eyes.

Have a look at ecclesiastical court records, also although parent
consent was needed for the marriage of a minor any such marriage without
consent was neither void nor voidable.
Cheers
Guy

--
Wakefield England

http://freespace.virgin.net/guy.etchells Transcripts, Parish
Records, Calendar, Scaleable Map of Uk. Link to LDS website,
Abbreviations, Returns of Owners of Lands etc. etc.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/dh/ Whitefield
Transcripts, Etch/ells Transcripts
http://gye.future.easyspace.com Worldwide Cemetery Links, Monumental
Inscriptions, War Graves, etc.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/CHURCH/church.htm
Churches & MIs. in the Wakefield Area
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/Ossett/obmi1.htm
Transcripts of 1st Baptist Burial ground, Ossett
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/tmi.htm Photos of
St. James Churchyard, Wakefield
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/stcr/stjsc1.htm
M.Is. in St. John the Evangelist Churchyard, Staincross


> I don't think children of 7 were ever allowed to marry in the UK.
>
> Maybe in India, which was the jewel of the Empire.
>
> The minimum age of marriage was 14 for boys and 12 for girls, and those under
> 21 needed the consent of their parents, which is why in many marriage registers
> the age of the parties is given as "full", implying that they did not need such
> consent.
>
> I think that has been changed recently, but in the time most of us are looking
> for marriages it would probably have applied.
>
> Keep well
>
> Steve Hayes
>

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