Marriage

  • See The Family Historian's Enquire Within (small yellow hardback on Quick Ref) for excellent article.
  • Church weddings recorded in parish registers from 1538 onwards.
  • Age of Marriage Act (1929) forbade marriage before the age of 16. Before then, girls of 12 and boys of 14 could legally marry in England.
  • Marriages usually took place in bride's parish.

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