Late first marriage?

[lyn1982]

Reasons for why a woman would have not married until she was 28? This is in Porto Empedocle, Agrigento. I need to find when her other sisters married, but 1 married aged 16 which is quite different.

[Farassino]

Have you got her marriage certificate?

[MarcuccioV]

Do you know the parent's death dates with the relationship to her marriage..? It's possible she took on responsibility of caring for the elders prior to marrying...

[darkerhorse]

At the time of her marriage, the bride's father was deceased and her mother was living.

[lyn1982]

Have you got her marriage certificate?

I have the allegati here:

https://i.imgur.com/N7ecloK.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/m2mdTvv.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/Lieh8TX.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/biVEhNa.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/71g9cMW.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/GAdU6az.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/o5yUjJt.jpeg

[lyn1982]

At the time of her marriage, the bride's father was deceased and her mother was living.

Thanks yeah thats correct and I have no idea when the mother died.

[darkerhorse]

It's also possible they were just late bloomers or maybe not as desirable as those who married younger. No intense offended.

[lyn1982]

It's also possible they were just late bloomers or maybe not as desirable as those who married younger. No intense offended.

I don't think desirable mattered in those days - parents usually arranged the marriage. You can't reject because brides ugly.

[darkerhorse]

You may be right. It was just a thought. But I don't think all marriages were "arranged" by parents then (1900?).

[lyn1982]

Thats true, parents probably by then let the child pick a spouse, but I assume would have arranged something if they remained unmarried too long.

[MarcuccioV]

My grandparent's marriage was "arranged" by the families. They were married in 1922 -- my grandfather had been in the US for 12 years (my grandmother was 7 when he emigrated) & he was already a US citizen...

[lyn1982]

I wish I knew more about my ancestors - but the same is probably tree for them on arranged marriages. I once read a story about a couple in Sicily who fell in love, parents refused the match, and they ran away to America with some money he saved - I hope somewhere in my genealogy such a sweet thing happened.