« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 19 January 21 20:47 GMT (UK) »
I've found a multitude of inter-cousin marriages in my tree, to the extent that down one line in 19th century Essex practically everyone is related to everybody else multiple times. Repeating forenames of course just to make things a bit more challenging. And today I've come across a marriage between two people with the surname Clark. The bride is so far unknown to me but the groom's parents were Clark and Clarke. And yes they were cousins, the family seemingly illiterate so the final "e" was sometimes present and sometimes not.
The Clarke bride, mother of the son who married another Clark as described above, was widowed in WW1. So a few years later she married her first husband's brother and bore another child. Not sure whether this (the marriage) was legal or not at the time but I have to admit that given what we know now about genetics I find it amazing that all of the children seem to have married and survived to old age.
Jane :-)
And me, Essex research for me can be a pain as I have several first cousin marriages there, and they often had common surnames like Clarke, Wood or Taylor, or surnames that are very common in Essex such as Stock, Hurrell, Mead and Thorogood. And those surnames are common enough in Essex without first cousin marriages, hence why I found on most of my Essex lines I am lucky to get back before 1750. The ones I have traced further tended to come from South Suffolk or Cambs.
Researching:
LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain
