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Deductions about the age of persons in the Communicants List of 1749.
The Communicants list is a list of persons attending the Parish Church of Dunrossness in 1749. This list was compiled by the minister, John Mill.
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Some of the persons in the List are getting married in 1754/5. This is about 5 years after the List was dawn up. The youngest age of marriage would be 16 years. Thus the persons in the List must be at least 11 years old. It seems likely that a Communicant would be a person who had been confirmed in the Church. At the moment it is not clear at which age confirmation took place, but for the purpose of the present analysis I am assuming that it is 14 years. Thus persons in the List are likely to have been born prior to 1735.
If a person is referred to as Senior or 'Eld' then it is likely that he/she will be at least 14 plus maybe 25 years old. This would mean that he/she would have been born pre 1710.