Age a women could marry in 1750

[Redroger]

Thank you Stan , oh my goodness that’s quite shocking . I thought I must have had the wrong marriage entry .
Many thanks
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Don't make the mistake of judging the 18th century or earlier by today's standards. Remember that at that time life expectancy was only in the 30s. If you waited to marry you could well be dead!

[GrahamSimons]

My 3-greats grandmother was 12 or 13 when she married my 3-greats grandfather who was 49 at the time (1779).

[gratuation]

I’ll know in future it was quite normal back then and thanks everyone

[melba_schmelba]

I’ll know in future it was quite normal back then and thanks everyone

I definitely wouldn't say that. In my trees of several thousand people, I have never found a marriage at that age, going back to the 1500s. The youngest I have seen is 14, and there was only one of those.

[stanmapstone]

From "The Oxford Guide to Family History" by David Hey.
Another myth that has been firmly laid to rest by social historians is that English people used to marry when they were very young......The evidence is inconclusive for the medieval period, but the study of parish registers has left no doubt that since the sixteenth century at least England has shared the north-western European pattern of a later age at marriage.... So well established was this pattern by the beginnings of parish registration, that it is unlikely that medieval experience was much different.... Only a very small proportion of the population of Elizabethan England married before the age of 20.

Stan

[gratuation]

Thanks for the information