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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Different father - explanation
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 00:10:06 +0000
In-Reply-To: <123.1e984d13.2b894f8e@aol.com>


In message <>, writes
>Jill, I don't think there was any 'tax' on the number of children, but I
>think a widow would do whatever possible to avoid having to go 'on the
>parish', and as a previous lister has suggested, maybe a brother-in-law took
>on the family - and added to it! I don't think it was unknown for a widow to
>marry a deceased husband's brother

she could not do this legally - and you can bet some kindly neighbour
would be only too ready to snitch

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Eve McLaughlin

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

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