 Every quarter, the minister or civil registrar prepares a further copy of all the marriage entries and sends them to the Registrar General.The certificate lists the date of the marriage, and the full names of both spouses.Their ages are included (it is also permissible to write "full", meaning of age, and until 1850 some 75% of certificates said that; if the certificate reads "minor" or "under age", it means that, until 1929 when the law changed to 16, the bride was between 12 and 20 and the groom 14 and 20 years of age).