On 31 jan, 23:41, Patrick Rock <NoRe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> edsm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
had this to say
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> > Can some tell me what the age of majority was in Quebec (and its
> > predecessors) for both males and females down through the years from
> > 1608 to the present and in what years did it change?
> > Ed
>
> Regarding marriageable age, girls were considered of marriageable age at
> 12, while IIRC, boys still waited till 18 (at least that is the youngest
> I've seen). =A0As far as other adult responsibilities (property holding,
> militia service, etc.), I don't know. =A0I've seen records of young men
> joining the army at 16.
>
> As far as marriage ages, I have seen a few females married at 12, while
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w =A0
> men married before 25, probably because of the need to have established
> themselves financially before taking a wife.
>
> With females it's harder to tell, because it's hard to know what rights
> they had in 17th-century France and French Canada. =A0I have an
ancestor,
> Anne Langlois, whose birth was recorded 31 August 1637 and who married
Jea=
n
> Pelletier on 9 November 1649 at the age of 12 years, two months, and
nine
> days. =A0The groom was 22.
Since Charles V, majority of the king is 14. For other males and
females in the kingdom (including New France), majority was 21, up to
the end of XIX or begining of XX. Now it's 18 for both, and will be
probably 16 in few year...
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