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Offline Jane Masri

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Re: What do you know of marriage law?
« Reply #27 on: Tuesday 23 October 12 17:38 BST (UK) »
For those of you who got addicted  ;D  try these  http://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/hobbies/hobbies_other/genealogy.html

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Re: What do you know of marriage law?
« Reply #28 on: Tuesday 23 October 12 19:02 BST (UK) »
Davidft, I already have.

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Re: What do you know of marriage law?
« Reply #29 on: Tuesday 23 October 12 20:30 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Guy Etchells on Tuesday 23 October 12 19:02 BST (UK)
Davidft, I already have.

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OK. Thank you.
James Stott c1775-1850. James was born in Yorkshire but where? He was a stonemason and married Elizabeth Archer (nee Nicholson) in 1794 at Ripon. They lived thereafter in Masham. If anyone has any suggestions or leads as to his birthplace I would be interested to know. I have searched for it for years without success. Thank you.

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Re: What do you know of marriage law?
« Reply #30 on: Wednesday 24 October 12 03:50 BST (UK) »

14/15

The one I apparently got incorrect was  this one " If you were to discover that your great-great-grandmother married at the age of 23 in 1850, would this be...."
I answered a little older than average.

Their answer was a little younger than average. According to them the average was just over 24

 I'd like to know where they got their info from for these brides in 1850, considering a great, great many marriages does not give an age of the bride (and the groom) , and of course their births would have been before civil reg, and of course censuses can not be relied on neither deaths for age

Take it with a pinch of salt  ;D
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Re: What do you know of marriage law?
« Reply #31 on: Wednesday 24 October 12 09:26 BST (UK) »
The information is gleaned from various studies that include parish registers, (baptisms & marriages) census, Registrar General's reports etc. Whilst such data may not be specifically accurate it can certainly give accurate average figures.

I have had a reply from Professor Probert who agrees with my point about names and has changed the feedback to reflect this.

Setting such multiply choice questions to convey accurately what one wishes to say is always difficult given that questions need to be as concise as possible.
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Re: What do you know of marriage law?
« Reply #32 on: Wednesday 24 October 12 20:09 BST (UK) »
Yes, I got that one "wrong" as well. 

Q:  Comparing an ancestor’s marriage certificate to his baptism certificate and to a census entry from immediately before the wedding, you discover that he used a completely different first name when he married.

I said it was valid regardless.  There was no mention of the banns in the question.

A:  If the banns were called in a name by which the person was not known, then the effect was just the same as if they had not been called at all, and the marriage would be void unless a court took the view that an innocent mistake had been made. Using the wrong name did not, however, invalidate a marriage by licence, even if it was adopted deliberately.

How are we to know that the banns were called in a different name?  There's nothing there to say so.  ::)
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Re: What do you know of marriage law?
« Reply #33 on: Monday 26 November 12 23:54 GMT (UK) »
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Re: What do you know of marriage law?
« Reply #34 on: Tuesday 27 November 12 00:30 GMT (UK) »
Obviously I blame poor question writing for the fact I only got 4 out of 10 ;D ;D ;D ;D

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