Legal age for.................?

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Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 0 Send Message	Jo	Report	5 Sep 2005 15:29
Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 0 Send Message	Does anybody know what the minimum age would have been in 1940 in order for them to be the 'informant' of a birth, marriage or death? Thanks, Jo
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 2 586 Send Message	Richard in Perth	Report	5 Sep 2005 15:58
	I don't think that there was a minimum age. According to Barbara Dixon's site (home.clara.net/dixons/Certificates/indexbd.htm), the following were the qualifications required to be the informant at births & deaths, in order of preference (there is no informant at a marriage of course, but nor is there a legal minimum age for witnesses at a marriage): Birth: (1) In all cases - mother (2) Father - if he is married to mother (3) Father and mother jointly where they are not married to one another (4) A person present at the birth (5) The owner or occupier of the house or institution (6) The person in charge of the child Death: (1) someone present at the death (2) someone in attendance (3) the occupier of a house (4) the master or keeper of an institution Additional categories were added after 1875 - check out the website for further details.
Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 0 Send Message	Jo	Report	5 Sep 2005 16:05
Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 0 Send Message	Richard, Thank you very much for your help. Jo