From: richard@ex-parrot.com   
      
   On 06/06/18 17:25, Norfolkman wrote:   
   > Would it have been common to baptize a child around the age of 9 in the 16th   
   > century?   
      
   I think it would be pretty unusual.  I don't recall having found any   
   instances of late baptisms in the 16th century in my family.   
      
   > It looks from records as if she was born (or rather Christened) in 1599 and   
   > married in 1612 which would make her 13 when she married and had her first   
   > child.   
      
   Childhood marriages were not especially uncommon in the 16th century,   
   and certainly less rare than late baptisms if my experiences are   
   anything to go by.  Most of the time there was a gap between the   
   marriage and first child, but not always.  One of the most famous   
   examples of a woman having children at a very young age is Lady Margaret   
   Beaufort.  She is usually reckoned to have been 13y 8m when her son, the   
   future Henry VII, was born in 1457; by that reckoning she was only 12   
   when she married her second husband, Edmund Tudor, and probably when she   
   conceived Henry.  (It should be noted that some historians have   
   suggested she was actually two years older than is normally reckoned.)   
      
   Richard   
      
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