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cousins marrying?
« on: Sunday 22 June 08 18:14 BST (UK) »
Does anyone know whether it was usual for cousins to marry in 1830's? Think i have direct cousins married but don't know if it would have happened.

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Essex: Barton, Bright, Adams, Gosling, White, Marchant, Nunn, Pulfer, Robinson, Rycroft, Simons, Skeet
Dorset: Allen, Stanley
Kent: Overill
Suffolk: Bush, Clark, Cook, Fenning, Garwood, Raindle/Rendall, Ridgeon, Scott
Somerset: Johnson
Yorkshire: Waddington, Douglas, Mullet
Wiltshire: Griffin, Loxley, Beer, Cromwell, Fillis, Gauntlett, Haywood, Naish, Pulling

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Re: cousins marrying?
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 22 June 08 18:30 BST (UK) »
Herefordshire: Mytton.
Lincs: Ingham
Northants: Knight (Welford); Linnell;  Gaudern.
Staffs (Brierley Hill, Kingswinford): Wood; Eades.
Somerset: Bailey; Lewis
Warwickshire: (Alcester, Henley in Arden) Lewis; Casey/Keasey
Warwickshire (Birmingham suburbs) Knight
Yorkshire (Bradford):  Ingham


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Re: cousins marrying?
« Reply #2 on: Monday 23 June 08 06:39 BST (UK) »
Thanks Susan

Seems very common!
Essex: Barton, Bright, Adams, Gosling, White, Marchant, Nunn, Pulfer, Robinson, Rycroft, Simons, Skeet
Dorset: Allen, Stanley
Kent: Overill
Suffolk: Bush, Clark, Cook, Fenning, Garwood, Raindle/Rendall, Ridgeon, Scott
Somerset: Johnson
Yorkshire: Waddington, Douglas, Mullet
Wiltshire: Griffin, Loxley, Beer, Cromwell, Fillis, Gauntlett, Haywood, Naish, Pulling

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Re: cousins marrying?
« Reply #3 on: Monday 23 June 08 09:37 BST (UK) »
Quite legal in the UK, and still happens today.  One of my wife's friends married her cousin.

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Re: cousins marrying?
« Reply #4 on: Monday 23 June 08 11:10 BST (UK) »
Happens in Australia also, in 20th C and also now I'd think.

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Re: cousins marrying?
« Reply #5 on: Monday 23 June 08 13:00 BST (UK) »
Very common in my 19th century families in England. In one case the child of cousins married the child of cousins  :o  They all lived in a very small community. Then some immigrated - probably a good idea.  :)

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Re: cousins marrying?
« Reply #6 on: Monday 23 June 08 17:04 BST (UK) »
Hi Boxingboy,

You can find some more topics with discussions  on Marriage Rules (and prohibitions) in the
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Bob
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