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Re: Inbreeding. Have You Been Surprised By What You Have Found Out?
« Reply #54 on: Thursday 01 June 06 21:51 BST (UK) »
Thats really confusing for you Claire and I dont envy you a bit. At least I have only found one lot that were cousins. So far. ::)

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Chamberlain and Wagstaff- Hunts.
Freeman, Cheney, Cox- Northants.
Burns, Muter, Cobban, Hossack, Strachan, Moonlight.
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Re: Inbreeding. Have You Been Surprised By What You Have Found Out?
« Reply #55 on: Monday 05 June 06 01:55 BST (UK) »
Hi Leanne

In reply to your query about intermarriage being banned in the 1800's.
In various branches of my family tree I have:-

1897 brother-in-law marrying sister-in-law (no issue though) both on 2nd marriages.
1908 1st cousin once removed marrying 1st cousin once removed.
1920 1st cousin marrying 1st cousin.
1920 1st cousin once removed marrying 1st cousin once removed.
1936 step brother had children with step sister (the law forbade them to marry).
1957 1st cousin marrying 1st cousin.


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Sussex: Floate, West
Kent: Tuffee
Cheshire: Gradwell
Lancashire: Gradwell

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Re: Inbreeding. Have You Been Surprised By What You Have Found Out?
« Reply #56 on: Thursday 08 June 06 22:32 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Comosus on Sunday 02 April 06 13:05 BST (UK)


My GG Grandfather married my GG Grandmother.  His brother married her sister.  So any children they had would have the same 4 grandparents and are technically cousins but would look more like brothers and sisters, and of course they have the same 4 grandparents, and the same ancestry so that would also make them more like brothers and sisters.  I'd love to get in touch with someone descended from the other side...


Exactly the same happened in my husband's tree!
Wilson in the Lancaster area
Clegg in Todmorden
Adamson in Edinburgh
Miller in Edinburgh
Nunn in Norfolk and Co Durham
Smith in Glasgow
Haig in Peebles/Edinburgh
Also Nelson, Gardener, Garnett, Blair, Coleman, Aaronson and many more as the branches expand!

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Re: Inbreeding. Have You Been Surprised By What You Have Found Out?
« Reply #57 on: Thursday 08 June 06 23:26 BST (UK) »
It was quite common in Ireland for two brothers to marry two sisters....in fact it still does happen.  The children are called double cousins.

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Re: Inbreeding. Have You Been Surprised By What You Have Found Out?
« Reply #58 on: Friday 09 June 06 07:34 BST (UK) »
I have a few instances of brothers marrying two sisters in my family tree, but stuck in Sussex I guess they didn't have much choice!!!!!

I am just reading a very interesting book called The Kings Two Sisters - Henry VIII's two sisters.  It touches on the Arthur/Henry and Katherine thing there, and Henry had to get a special dispensation from the pope to marry Katherine because she had been married to his brother.  They had to prove the marriage was unconsumated!

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Re: Inbreeding. Have You Been Surprised By What You Have Found Out?
« Reply #59 on: Saturday 10 June 06 00:10 BST (UK) »
hi yall

Ive recently been contacted by a distant relative who says that there is an instance in his family where 3 brothers and sisters married a father and a son and daughter.  STRANGE :o

I got the situation in lancs in the early/mid 1800's where my Hesfords married my Royles who married my Birchalls who married my Hesfords who married Royles who married hesfords that married Royles! Totally confusing but from what I have seen - totally legal :D

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