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From: Judy Landauer <>
Subject: [IOWA] Re: 1870 Census, working at 14
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 14:04:41 -0700
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I read in a family publication that the average age of young women
"coming of age" in a physical sense 100 years ago was 14. Now it is
12. I believe marriageable age would vary according to what was
common for the specific community, too.



>It may be true in some instances that girls got married that young, but my
>research has shown me that they got married a lot older than we might
>think - at least early 20's generally. Some younger of course.
>
>Happy digging,
>
>Janet Branson
>
>
>> In that time period I imagine it was common for young people age 14 to
>> be working, girls and boys. Girls got married not much older than 14,
>> and some that young.
>>
> > M. Gillette
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