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The Common Room / Re: uncle married niece
« on: Thursday 04 April 13 08:17 BST (UK) »
Hi All,
I found out that an Uncle married his niece in my family tree recently.
It come as a bit of a shock! They had two children both of which died within a three year period AND... the niece also died within the same period.
This occurred in Burra, South Australia in 1893.
Its actually legal to marry onces niece in Australia....wiki below;
"Avunculate marriage refers to a marriage between an uncle and a niece or between an aunt and a nephew (third degree relations). In some societies avunculate marriage is prohibited as a form of incest, while in others it is legal, even common.
The partners of an avunculate marriage have the same genetic relationship as half-siblings or a grandparent and grandchild, sharing on average 25% of their genetic material. This is more than that of a first cousin relationship, in which on average the members would share 12.5% of their genetic material, but less than that of full siblings.
Avunculate marriages were once frequent among the royal houses of Europe, as Leviticus 18 was not interpreted to explicitly forbid the marriage of a man with the daughter of his sibling; in Catholic countries a papal dispensation could be and often was obtained to allow such a marriage.
Avunculate marriage is currently illegal in most Anglophone nations,[1] but is allowed in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, France, and Russia."
I found out that an Uncle married his niece in my family tree recently.
It come as a bit of a shock! They had two children both of which died within a three year period AND... the niece also died within the same period.
This occurred in Burra, South Australia in 1893.
Its actually legal to marry onces niece in Australia....wiki below;
"Avunculate marriage refers to a marriage between an uncle and a niece or between an aunt and a nephew (third degree relations). In some societies avunculate marriage is prohibited as a form of incest, while in others it is legal, even common.
The partners of an avunculate marriage have the same genetic relationship as half-siblings or a grandparent and grandchild, sharing on average 25% of their genetic material. This is more than that of a first cousin relationship, in which on average the members would share 12.5% of their genetic material, but less than that of full siblings.
Avunculate marriages were once frequent among the royal houses of Europe, as Leviticus 18 was not interpreted to explicitly forbid the marriage of a man with the daughter of his sibling; in Catholic countries a papal dispensation could be and often was obtained to allow such a marriage.
Avunculate marriage is currently illegal in most Anglophone nations,[1] but is allowed in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, France, and Russia."