You just keep saying nothing, and ignoring not only the census data, but the hard data of church and government records, marriage licenses, etc.
This kind of stuff has been researched in great detail, for instance post 100.
Your putting your hands over your ears and saying no, no, no, isn’t very adult.
Ansel, putting your hands over your eyes helps less. When 2 people on this thread say that it’s a muth and about 10 come back and tell you it isn’t...when it is pointed out to you that your census data missed a huge chunk of the population simply because there were few/no takers in rural areas, when your own admission that your own family like hundreds of millions of others has young marraige in it, then one of us has a problem with reality. Not faulty papers...reality.
Look at it from the outside. you see a guy that says X is a muth and oh by they way, I have X in my own family...but it’s still a myth. How exactly do you figgure that sounds? And please explain the difference between that and a lib saying “I am surrounded in crushing ice that isnt really here because global warming melted it all.
Thats not a straw man. Both instances show people admitting their pet idea is wrong, giving actual evidence that it is wrong and telling someone with a straight face that no, it’s not wrong.
We were trades men so we can research Town records for indentures of apprenticeship. Men were two to four years older than the women and they were established, Journeymen.