« Reply #16 on: Monday 09 April 12 22:47 BST (UK) »
Despite the prohibited lists, marriages such as these definitely went on.
I have 2 cases in separate lines of my wife's family tree of uncles marrying their own nieces (well in one case they had children; I am still searching for the marriage). When I came across the first instance, I ruled it out, thinking there must have been a separate family of the same name.
Makes you wonder about the relevance of the words, "Does anyone know of any reason why this couple shouldn't be wed?"
Darren
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)
Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.