Scandalous

[Lensmeister]

St. Mary's Parich Church, Whitby, North Yorkshire, England

Baptism

8th October 1740

William son of an incestuous marriage within the degrees prohibited (for which the parties stand excommunicated) between Emanuel Ripley, sailor, and his niece Eliz: Jackson, born Whitby

[Spelk]

The "degrees prohibited" back then may be considered perfectly OK these days - so more info needed before Tutt Tutting.

[Lensmeister]

On the wall of the church is a list of who cannot marry one another .I have a photo somewhere. not that I'll find it lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibited_degree_of_kinship#:~:text=In%20law%2C%20a%20prohibited%20degree,found%20in%20incest%20and%20nepotism.

[louisa maud]

I find that awful to be honest,  I have a marriage where a man married his sister in law, went to a london to  do so and on the birth of the child it is shown in so uncertain terms this was an unlawful marriage, thank goidness things have moved on.

Louida Maud