Find My Past Blog - Love knows no age in the Cheshire parish records

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How old were your ancestors when they got married? Chances are they were probably in their twenties. While this was very much the norm, a couple of rather unusual marriages in the parish records from our Cheshire collection prove that people continued to marry much later in life.
Daniel Broadbent married Martha Cheetham in Mottram-in-Longendale on 9 March 1780. You can take a look at the record of this marriage below. Alongside the information you would expect to find written in the parish register, the following note has been added:
‘Behold! N.B. A peculiar marriage! Daniel Broadbent was aged twenty-three – Martha Cheetham aged eighty-three’.
Parish register recording the marriage of Daniel Broadbent and Martha Cheetham

Another ‘peculiar marriage’ can be found in the parish registers of St Oswald, Chester. George Harding and Jane Darlington married on 6 May 1776 and a note on the record below informs us that ‘George Harding is in the 105th year of his age and Jane Darlington in her 75th’.
Parish register recording the marriage of George Harding and Jane Darlington

Have you found any similar marriages in your own family tree? Please do leave a comment and let us know how old your ancestors were when they got married!


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