Did you know…
"…that until 1763, you only had to be 12 (girls) or 14 (boys) to marry in London? That 20% of London’s population was killed by a second Black Plague in the 1600s? That during the first year of WWI, marriages in London increased by 32%?"
http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2…ish-registers/
Cultures change.