Is there more information contained in the Parish Records? (General)

by Dewey, Saturday, February 09, 2008, 07:36 (6140 days ago) @ rubyrct

In addition to the reasons given for a false age, we must remember that in the periods of interest most people had to work their entire life, as there was not the pensions we have today. In order to get and keep a job it was sometimes necessary to claim an age younger than you were. My great grandfather stopped having birthdays after he reached 61. Every document that I have found for the period after he passed 61 has the same age ,61,even the census taken after he was in his seventies

Dewey.