BRIDES AT 80 YEARS
LONDON, July 25. The Registrar-General’s Department discloses that in 1942 88 men and 18 women over 80 years of age married. The records also reveal that one girl became a mother at 12, three at 13 and 39 at 14. The most popular marriage age for men and women proved to be 21, compared with 24 for men and 23 for women in 1938, the year before the war.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22416, 25 August 1947, Page 2
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73BRIDES AT 80 YEARS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22416, 25 August 1947, Page 2
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