I have started a task which I have been meaning to do for a long time.
I'm looking at the ages at which men and women from my tree and from my husband's tree married , because I noticed that some of them did not rush into marriage at a young age.
It's very interesting.
I have just looked at a few from my direct line so far, and I have entered them on a table.
I have then put the results into decades:
1770s Woman 31 Man 40
1780s Woman 23 Man 23
1800-1810
Woman 22 Man 24
Woman 28 Man 26
1810-1820
Woman 22 Man 26
Woman 25 Man 21
Woman 22 Man 22
Woman 24 Man 36
Woman 32 Man 32
1830s
Woman 17 Man 20
Woman 22 Man 23
1840s
Woman 20 Man 21
Woman 27 (Widow) Man 22
Woman 23 Man 23
Woman 24 Man 29
1850s
W 34 (Widow) M 45 (W)
W 27 M 27
1860s
W 22 M 23
1870s
W 21 M 28
W 26 M 26
1880s
W 26 M 29
1890s
W 24 M 25
1900-10
W 20 M 28
1910-20
W 22 M 28
W 23 M 27
1930s
W 21 M 25
1940s W 24 M 23
I am going to keep updating this. It will be interesting to see how young/old the people marrying were.
I have just one teenager marrying so far, my great-great-grandmother Charlotte Jane Hatch who was just 17. Her husband, James Thomas Purkis, was 20.
I'm looking at the ages at which men and women from my tree and from my husband's tree married , because I noticed that some of them did not rush into marriage at a young age.
It's very interesting.
I have just looked at a few from my direct line so far, and I have entered them on a table.
I have then put the results into decades:
1770s Woman 31 Man 40
1780s Woman 23 Man 23
1800-1810
Woman 22 Man 24
Woman 28 Man 26
1810-1820
Woman 22 Man 26
Woman 25 Man 21
Woman 22 Man 22
Woman 24 Man 36
Woman 32 Man 32
1830s
Woman 17 Man 20
Woman 22 Man 23
1840s
Woman 20 Man 21
Woman 27 (Widow) Man 22
Woman 23 Man 23
Woman 24 Man 29
1850s
W 34 (Widow) M 45 (W)
W 27 M 27
1860s
W 22 M 23
1870s
W 21 M 28
W 26 M 26
1880s
W 26 M 29
1890s
W 24 M 25
1900-10
W 20 M 28
1910-20
W 22 M 28
W 23 M 27
1930s
W 21 M 25
1940s W 24 M 23
I am going to keep updating this. It will be interesting to see how young/old the people marrying were.
I have just one teenager marrying so far, my great-great-grandmother Charlotte Jane Hatch who was just 17. Her husband, James Thomas Purkis, was 20.
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