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What does "close kin" mean?
« on: Thursday 12 May 16 19:37 BST (UK) »
Sorry for sounding so stupid, I'm thinking it's spouses, sons, parents, grandparents, etc. Am I right?

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Re: What does "close kin" mean?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 12 May 16 19:40 BST (UK) »
Quote from: 11easkry on Thursday 12 May 16 19:37 BST (UK)
Sorry for sounding so stupid, I'm thinking it's spouses, sons, parents, grandparents, etc. Am I right?

Welcome to Rootschat.

That's what I understand as close kin as well.
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Re: What does "close kin" mean?
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 12 May 16 19:41 BST (UK) »
Welcome to Rootschat ... while generally correct you have to be aware of context and who is making the comment.

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Re: What does "close kin" mean?
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 12 May 16 20:12 BST (UK) »
Daughters might qualify too...

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Re: What does "close kin" mean?
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 12 May 16 21:23 BST (UK) »
Simply means close family, blood relations or by marriage.

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Re: What does "close kin" mean?
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 12 May 16 21:59 BST (UK) »
Normally as described above, but it also depends on the era.
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.

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Re: What does "close kin" mean?
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 18 May 16 09:11 BST (UK) »
I have a death cert  for guncle where informant is down as ' intimate friend'

Surnames were similar but eventually I found an address link and realised
It was actually his wife' cousin.

  Not close enough to be deemed close kin I suppose
Roberts,Fellman.Macdermid smith jones,Bloch,Irvine,Hallis Stevenson

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Re: What does "close kin" mean?
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 18 May 16 09:25 BST (UK) »
I thought 'kin' was a term used more in the USA than elsewhere.

I would also be interested to know what context this word is used.  :)

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Re: What does "close kin" mean?
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 18 May 16 10:27 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Ruskie on Wednesday 18 May 16 09:25 BST (UK)
I thought 'kin' was a term used more in the USA than elsewhere.

I would also be interested to know what context this word is used.  :)

The term kinsman/kinswoman has been used through the centuries. I have a will from 1708 with the word kinsman; it actually referred to the testator's niece's husband.
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.
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