MARRIAGE VOID
BRIDE OF 35 LONDON", Jan. If A marriage was annulled in, the Divorce Court yesterday because the wjfe was under IG years of age at the timo of the ceremony. The "petition, jpade by Mrs. Margery Graimes Ca'rr (nee Fowler), ol Le'adale road, Stamford Hill, N., was undefended. , " Mr. Justice Bucknill, granting the decree of nullity, said that Miss Fowler went through a ceremony ot marriage to Hubert Alfred Carr at Chingford (Essex) in September, 1930. There-were no children. " She gave lier age as 17, whereas her actual age was only li> years and eleven months. She now said she did that because she thought, it would seem foolish to give her real age. She led the man io believe she was 17. r Under the Marriage Act of 1929, Mr. Justice Bucknill added, a marriage was void if either party was under IG.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18955, 4 March 1936, Page 8
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