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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: Nephew double meaning
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 00:19:27 +0000
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In article <>, Mark Harry
<> writes
>Eve McLaughlin wrote:
> > yes - led astray by the Latin nepos, which means grandson but looks
>like
> > nephew. And cousin can mean any sort of relative other than
>parents,
> > children or siblings (inc grandsons, great nephews etc)
>
>I have seen a gloucestershire will, dated c. 1595 from memory, where
>the testator called his own son and heir his "cousin"
That is rather strange! All kin are cousins, but your own son and heir
is something better., I wonder - was he making a point there?

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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