Step-siblings marrying
- Thread starter Bay Horse
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MollyMay
Knows where to find the answers!
Have a read of this - it would appear that it was not forbidden https://genetic-genealogy.co.uk/Toc115570145.html
Bay Horse
Can be a bit of a dark horse
I have steps marrying. No blood relation but I find that it is strange that one can marry a first cousin.
There is also , in my family, someone whose husband had died emigrating to the USA and marrying his brother.
I presume 1st cousins marrying will continue because,after all, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were first cousins
There is an online site that says that 12 royals married their cousins.
There is also , in my family, someone whose husband had died emigrating to the USA and marrying his brother.
I presume 1st cousins marrying will continue because,after all, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were first cousins
There is an online site that says that 12 royals married their cousins.
Bay Horse
Can be a bit of a dark horse
Oddly enough, the step-siblings that prompted my query had a daughter who then married her cousin. Mind you, the step-siblings went overseas to marry and I do wonder if, although it was legal, the family actually approved.
The reason I say that was because there was a huge falling out in my family. My dad's elder sister wanted to marry her cousin. She did, but because her father, my grandfather, supported her marrying the lad she loved, he was thrown out of the estate and he was ostracised; we all were, apparently. His parents, siblings, aunts and uncles never spoke to him again during his lifetime - and not one of them came to his funeral, going my the list of mourners on his obituary (I have the clipping, still). Families can be odd.
The reason I say that was because there was a huge falling out in my family. My dad's elder sister wanted to marry her cousin. She did, but because her father, my grandfather, supported her marrying the lad she loved, he was thrown out of the estate and he was ostracised; we all were, apparently. His parents, siblings, aunts and uncles never spoke to him again during his lifetime - and not one of them came to his funeral, going my the list of mourners on his obituary (I have the clipping, still). Families can be odd.