[QUOTE=Merry;342841]I think 'lied about everything' sounds a bit drastic! If they didn't actually marry, for whatever reason, all the lies that come after that would be pretty normal ones!
I'm not sure why you would think they would have had a marriage licence if William was under age? They wouldn't have needed one in order to marry - in normal circumstances the vicar would just have needed the word of a parent for consent.]
I don't know why I thought they should have had a licence to marry - maybe I have seen some before for under-age parties ? Never mind, it was just a hope.
I struggle with the idea that maybe they lied and concealed so much about their lives. All my other ancestors were mostly honest in their official record encounters (well, a couple altered their ages in the census, and great-grandmother Eccles was a bigamist).
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