Is age just a number?

Just discovered that my great grandmother's little brother, the wonderfully named Leonard Frank Silverton Walker (born 1897) married Martha Porter in 1926.

A few searches for her didn't find any relevant births or deaths.

Then a fellow researcher on www.genesreunited.co.uk checked the registers of Whaplode for me. Turns out Martha was 65 years old when she married the 29 year old Leonard. The census records of 1891 and 1901 suggest she was actually born in 1858.

So Leonard married a woman who was 39 years his senior...