Confusion over dates

[rob123]

Can anyone explain the following: I have a marriage certificate dated 1920 where the brides age is given as 26 therefore born 1894, however her birth certificate gives a date of birth in 1891 making her 29?

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Erm..............well, if the certs are definitely for the same person, then it means she lied when she got married!! (or she forget her proper age!!)

My grandmother knocked off four years when she married and spent about 50 years bragging that she married on her 21st birthday. When she reached 75, she suddenly announced her 80th birthday. No one said a word! lol

[fran]

Perhaps she told fibs.Was she older than the groom?
Fran

[rob123]

Maybe I am to honest!

[rob123]

Yes fran she was older than the groom

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Yes fran she was older than the groom

But was she younger than the groom when they married??

[rob123]

Erm...No she was older by four years, so if she was born in 1891 she would have been 7 years older than the groom, which I am assuming is a big age difference in those days.

[Little Nell]

Well she may have felt sensitive about that, or about being nearly 30 (middle aged by then!).

Or a kinder interpretation might be that she gave the right age but the registrar wrote 9 instead of 6 in a moment of dyslexic abberation.

Personally I think she told a porkie.

[Christine in Herts]

My g-grandmother spent years being 7 years younger than her actual age. At first, I thought that the birth record was the wrong one! But the sequence of census info made it quite clear.

Christine

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

It's also possible she had already told a porkie to her boyfriend/fiancee when they first met and had to continue with that age .......My grandfather olny found out how old his wife was after about 40 years of marriage when he needed her birth cert to claim a pension. Of course, no one mentioned it to her!! lol