Estimating dates for William Arnold and Elizabeth

ShaenaPeterson

I'm wanting to do the ordinances for my 4th great grandfather and grandmother. I have sources for births for their children but nothing definite on them. I checked out what to do if you don't have an exact date and it gives great advice for estimating their birthdates from a wedding date etc (which I don't have) and a birthdate of the first child as one year after the wedding date. Just wondering if conversely I can estimate their wedding date as 1 year before the birth of their first child (which is 1778) making their marriage 1777 and then estimating their ages (with him being 25 and her 21 as suggested in the information I read) and then using those dates? Place is definitely England.

W D Samuelsen contact me please

Yes, you can estimate the dates. Usually the average is 25 for male from birth of oldest with 22 or 21 for female. Enter "About date"

Gordon Collett

Be sure to make clear your reasoning. Use "About" before the estimated dates and in the Reason Statement put an explanation of how you came up with the years. Then next researcher will not waste time wondering where the source is that gives those dates and why you did not attach the source. That reminder will also help future researchers keep an open mind about what the dates really could be. I have run across entries using those age 25 and 21 assumptions and after further work found, for example, that the marriage was five years after the birth of the first child when the husband was 50 and the mother was 30.

Bryan54

Please see the Knowledge Article below:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/i-dont-know-the-exact-date-to-enter-into-family-tree

ShaenaPeterson

This is the article to which I am referring in my original comments. It doesn't answer my question directly and this is why I explain what I would like to infer from that information.

ShaenaPeterson

Thank you Samuel!

ShaenaPeterson

Thanks. Yes I filled in a reason. Good point.