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From: "Rosemary Dixon-Smith" <>
Subject: Re: forbidden marriages
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 19:14:32 +0200
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How about this for a complication? Mr X married Miss Y and had one son.
The first wife died and Mr X married his sister-in-law. This couple
subsequently had a daughter. The children, boy and girl, cousins but also
sharing a father, were brought up in the same household. Later, the boy and
girl fell in love and, after their father's death, made an illegal marriage,
the groom giving a false name for his father on the marriage record, as well
as falsifying his own occupation. They moved to another part of the
country.

On one level this was a marriage between first cousins, sufficient cause for
raised eyebrows, but on another level it was worse than that.

The marriage took place in England in the 1880s. This couple produced 6
children, of whom only 2 survived beyond childhood.

Regards,
Rosemary



----- Original Message -----
From: Mike <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 5:27 PM
Subject: forbidden marriages


> We had a similar case in our family in the 1800. The brother was
> ex-communicated and fled from Worcester to Canada. He changed his name
from
> Brown to Smith. (Very Imaginative!!)
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Mike Browne
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tombi Peck [mailto:]
> Sent:
> To:
> Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] Pringle Descendants/forbidden marriages
>
> I think that applies to many of us....it would make such a difference if
we
> had diaries or letters belonging to some of these folk for that time...it
> might explain more!
> Groete,
> Tombi
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Wattrus XP" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 10:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] Pringle Descendants/forbidden marriages
>
>
> > Hi
> > If the practice of not marrying the sister of a dead wife was illegal it
> > seems that it was then done often with total disregard of the law! I
have
> a
> > number of these types of marriage in my family tree.
> > Best wishes
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
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