I Look Pretty Young But I'm Just Back-dated

[moon_custafer]

Due to having recently read a_t_rain's story the other day, I looked up John Heminges' name online and noticed that the Wikipedia entry gave his birth year as 1556, which would have made him thirty-two when he married Rebecca Knell who was sixteen at the time. Startled, I looked at some of the other dates given in the article: that birthdate would also have made him thirty-one at the time he qualified as a freeman of the Grocers' Company, even though he's described as having served a nine-year apprenticeship beginning age twelve.

Checking the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online got a birth year of 1566, which made way more sense, so I went into Wikipedia editing and fixed it (it actually had 1566 already in the header code, the typo was only in a few places).

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[moon_custafer]

I wondered if I'd have to ask somebody to approve it, but the site just let me make the correction -- there was a field where I was prompted to give my reason for the edit, but it was simple enough to explain.