marriage certificates and proving age.

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Member Since: August 2003 Posts: 1,586 Send Message	Deborah	Report	28 Mar 2004 22:48
	Hi Dorothy, Marriages certs don't prove age, but neither does the census. Either could be a genuine mistake, or they could have deliberately given the wrong age on the census form or the marriage cert. Age did not have to proven for a marriage. Debbie
Member Since: February 2004 Posts: 2,533 Send Message	Devon Dweller	Report	28 Mar 2004 20:22
	Ive found that ages go up and down on everything and the only way to have exact age is from the actual birth certificate. Sheila
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 59 Send Message	Dorothy	Report	28 Mar 2004 19:41
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 59 Send Message	can anyone tell me, if, in 1876, age would have to be proved, as it is now, before marriage. the reason i ask is this. my great grandparents marriage certificate shows that they married in 1876 , and that gt. grandad, charles whyte was 23 years old (therefore born in 1853), and that gt. grandma , matilda ess, was 22 years old (born in 1854). However, the 1901 census shows them both as 45 years old, therefore both born in 1856. can anyone help with this. many thanks.