SCOTCH WEDDINGS
BRIDES FROM 15 TO 70
London, November 19. The Registrar-General for Scotland furnishes remarkable facts from the 1919 record of the Scotch marrying year. There were 44,137 marriages, •which included two brides aged 15, live bridegrooms aged IC, and 111 aged 17. , Twenty-one boys of 19 and under married widows, and there were five bridegrooms, aged over 80, and four brides aged 71. The births included one set ot quadruplets, all alive at birth. The last such instancy recorded was in 1907. The report 4, stated that the frequency of irregular marriages in Scotland continued high.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4157, 30 November 1920, Page 5
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