1911 census

[Merry]

Not needed for BK6

Does anyone have any family members who were alive in 1911 and had been married more than 61 years?

I just noticed that you cannot enter a marriage year of before 1850 in the search criteria! Does that mean there are no examples of longer marriages at this date? I think that's highly unlikely.

[Phoenix]

Perhaps it's not so much that they may have been married that long, but whether they can remember that far back!

[kiterunner]

I can't think of any in my tree. My 3xg-grandmother Sarah Sewell was still alive, age 87, and she did get married in 1849, but her husband had died in 1891 so even if she filled in the "years married" box it would only say 42 years. I haven't actually viewed the image, so I don't know if she did fill it in.

[Mary from Italy]

Best I can do is a marriage in 1852. Both still alive in 1911.

[kiterunner]

I suppose you could Google or search the Times for people who celebrated their diamond wedding in 1909 and look them up if you really want to find out what it does. I did try but I kept finding couples from the USA and Australia!

[JayG]

The longest marriage i've got that i've viewed the image for is my 3x great grandparents married in 1853 & married 57 years at the time of the census.

[samesizedfeet]

Does the year of marriage criteria even work?

I have just searched for one Habakkuk Bartram, who is mistranscribed as Bratram, to see what I got. I removed most of the search criteria and searched for names starting with H, place of birth Dickleburgh and year of marriage 1850 (exact).

The list of results includes 5 people who weren't even born in 1850.

[Merry]

That's odd, I have used it to help find people several times. I wouldn't have known it didn't like a date pre-1850 except that I put someones dob in the wrong box!

[Nell]

I read recently that the average length of a Victorian marriage was 11 years.

Really Nell, wonder why?