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Redroger
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Relationships
« on: Tuesday 05 May 09 11:32 UTC (UK) »
I have known for very many years that practically the entire village of Lode is inter-related, with many cousin marriages over many generations. I have diverted from my grandfather's tree (Ayres/ Cornwell etc) to my grandmother's (Brignell/Willis etc) in Cambridge city. I now find that her tree is similarly inter-related, and also related to the Ayres/ Cornwell tree. Is this the norm in Cambridgeshire only, or does it apply across the entire country?
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Lady Di
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Re: Relationships
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 05 May 09 12:13 UTC (UK) »
I have found the same thing in a village in Hertfordshire.
Inter marriages seem to be the norm and appear far more frequently the further you go back in time.

The one bonus is that you just know that when someone marries, the surname of the spouse has to be from one a very few known families. Very rarely did they marry outside their circle.

Makes research slightly easier (sometimes Grin )

Di
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tazzie
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Re: Relationships
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 05 May 09 12:19 UTC (UK) »



    I think it would happen often. I have it occuring in both my husbands tree in a Bedfordshire village and mine across Buckinghamshire.
  Cousins marry cousins and then repeat back a few generations down the line, can make drawing up a tree a real b****r sometimes but as Di says makes them easy to track down.

               Tazzie
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Green/Simpson/Underwood-Beds
Walker/Foulkes/Fookes/Fooks/Hedges/Lamborne-Bucks.
Stanton/Pattrick/Cooper/Fitzjohn/Holland/Spalding-London
 Rewallin/Underwood -Devon
 Casbolt-London/Cambridge
 Favell/Favel - Lincs-Beds

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NettieS
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Re: Relationships
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 06 May 09 10:43 UTC (UK) »

I think it happened alot as it occurs in my tree in Cambridgeshire and also in my husbands tree in Scotland.
I have a couple of sets of sisters who married brothers in my tree and then one surname pops up three times in my tree at various times, twice on my mums side and once on my dads side and they are all related.

It did confuse me for a long time when I first started doing my tree especially when most of them have the same first names. It has got easier with time though.

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Lyne
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Redroger
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Re: Relationships
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 06 May 09 13:38 UTC (UK) »
I kept quiet about a case in Lincolnshire with which my family has two involvements, and they had lived in the county less than 50 years at the time, where several villages are related to each other. Remember to, that this (inbreeding) was the reason given by the then government for the questions regarding disabilities on the 1851 census.I also strongly suspect through the case of a relative who emigrated to Australia in 1903, aged 14 was follows by his bride then aged 20 in 1915 that many marriages were in fact arranged. This one seems fairly obvious as she was 10 when he left England.
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