Board Thread:Debating Club/@comment-3493059-20140414152404/@comment-4934571-20140415133113

I'm mad at myself but I have to say this: I think we have a wrong year. :D For a moment forget all we know about him from Rilla of Ingleside - those information about his age are completely wrong. So what do we know from Anne of Ingleside?

Exerpt from Chapter 3: Everyone of the children had a bouquet picked specially for her, even the two-year-old Shirley.

This chapter is set in June 1899. At first we thought that he was born in January 1898 and that he was one and half year old. We believed that Montgomery rounded his age to two. But now we know that he was born in April. Thus he must have been two years and two months old. I think that he was born in April 1897.

He couldn't have been born in April 1898, otherwise his age in Chapter 3 wouldn't fit. People usually don't round one year and two months to two years. And remember, he must have been old enough to walk on his own and bring a bouquet. In following chapters he 'had been found in a stable standing right under one of the horses and locked himself in the bathroom and forgot how to unlock it. That sounds more like what two years old child would do. And he called Mary Maria Ugly old Aunt Maywia. One year old children usually don't know much words, just members of his family and some animal sounds.

To sum up, I think he was born on April 2, 1897.