From: nemonews@hotmail.co.uk   
      
   I have found 2 marriages at St Mary's, Alverstoke Hampshire, where   
   Consent was involved.  The first was in 1818, after Banns, and the bride   
   is described as "Hannah Paul a minor with consent of her father Peter   
   Paul" and the name Isaac Kiln is written after the printed "With consent   
   of".  Isaac Kiln was also named as one of the Witnesses.  The father was   
   alive at the time.   
      
   In the second case, by Licence, the bride was about 9 or 10 months short   
   of 21, but her age or condition is not mentioned.  The Printed "with   
   consent of" is followed by the name Joseph Gear and Joseph Gear is one   
   of the Witnesses.  Joseph Gear (and possibly his wife) was also a   
   Witness to the bride's second marriage after she was widowed.   
      
   Previously, I have only come across consent being given to a minor's   
   marriage by the father.  Why is there a second person consenting to the   
   first marriage, and who is the person giving consent likely to be in the   
   second case?  (I don't know if the second bride's father was alive at   
   the time of her marriage or if Joseph Gear was in any way related.)   
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   Jenny M Benson   
   http://jennygenes.blogspot.co.uk/   
      
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