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From: "Colleen" <>
Subject: Re: Marriage Impediments(2)
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 19:44:22 +0100
References: <F31gPD7Fjm0fwYdka0f0000427a@hotmail.com>


Are we splitting hairs here and pussyfooting around the real issue - is
marriage the real impediment? Okay, okay, sorry - I'll go away.

Colleen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tina Kirby" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: Marriage Impediments(2)


>
> "Note, there was never a restriction on marriage between cousins."
>
> Which probably explains why one branch of my family repeatedly married
their
> cousins. No wonder my 3x great grandfather left the village and journeyed
> far far east to Essex from Wiltshire. Needed some fresh blood. ;-)
>
> Tina
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Noel Clark" <>
> To:
> Subject: Marriage Impediments(2)
> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:38:07 +1000
>
> Listers, I'm now no quite so sure that the list contained on the 1662
> Book of Common Prayer web-site is complete.
>
> My typewritten list of impediments, taken from a book by Colin Chapman,
> includes "brother's wife" and "wife's sister", but I can't see these
> impediments listed on the web-site.
>
> So here's the list I have.
>
> A man may not marry his:
> 1. Grandmother
> 2. Grandfather's wife
> 3. Wife's grandmother
> 4. Father's sister
> 5. Mother's sister
> 6. Father's brother's wife
> 7. Mother's brother's wife
> 8. Wife's father's sister
> 9. Wife's mother's sister
> 10. Mother
> 11. Step-mother
> 12. Wife's mother
> 13. Daughter
> 14. Wife's daughter
> 15. Son's wife
> 16. Sister
> 17. Wife's sister
> 18. Brother's wife
> 19. Son's daughter
> 20. Daughter's daughter
> 21. Son's son's wife
> 22. Daughter's son's wife
> 23. Wife's son's daughter
> 24. Wife's daughter's daughter
> 25. Brother's daughter
> 26. Sister's daughter
> 27. Brother's son's wife
> 28. Sister's son's wife
> 29. Wife's brother's daughter
> 30. Wife's sister's daughter.
>
> For the impediments for a woman, simply reverse the sex. So, for
> example, item 29 for a woman is "Husband's sister's son" and item 30 is
> "Husband's brother's son".
>
> Note, there was never a restriction on marriage between cousins.
>
> Regards,
> Noel
>
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>
> BMD Index On-Line
> CountryWide : http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/
> Cambridgeshire :
> http://www.camcnty.gov.uk/sub/register/
> Cheshire : http://www.cheshirebmd.org.uk/
>
>
> Visit http://www.swangen.co.uk/genes/ to access my family tree site.
>
> It includes some resources and details on my ancestral lines. All
Cannings
> Census 1851-1891.
>
> Counties ancestors were born in :
> Berkshire - Simms, Knapp
> Dorset - Phillips, Gale
> Essex - Hobbs, Mason, Redgwell, Coe,
> Cock, Sneezham, Taylor, Wright,
> Shoesmith, Deighton
> Hampshire - Smith(mat) Vernham's Dean
> Kent - Kember
> London - Hobbs, Smart, Colwell, Kirby,
> Fox, Hodges, Burl
> Somerset - Biggs
> Staffordshire - Kent, Lane, Whitehouse
> Surrey - Heathorn
> Suffolk - Coe, Coppen, Lister, Sergeant
> Sussex - Sims
> Wiltshire - Smith(mat) Marlborough/Ramsbury
> Smith(pat) Broad Hinton
> Swanborough, Hiscock, Perry,
> Most of All Cannings village
> Worcestershire - Baylis, Hickman, Whitehouse
>
>
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