From: myths@ic24.net   
      
   On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:04:48 +0100, Jenny M Benson   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 18-Oct-18 04:39 PM, Tahiri wrote:   
   >> I was recently looking again at a page from Hackington (Kent) Marriage   
   >> register in the 1730's and noticed some girls were descibed as 'spinster'   
   >> and some as 'maiden' It is the same handwriting all down the page, and as it   
   >> happens none of the girls are from Hackington. Are we meant to infer some   
   >> difference between them? Is the vicar discreetly casting aspersions on the   
   >> morals of the 'spinsters'?   
   >   
   >Could it relate to a difference in age?  [...] whereas "a maiden" (to me,   
   >anyway) implies a younger one.   
      
   Unless an aunt?   
      
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