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10-11-14, 08:06
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Intermarrying
Like most of us, I'm descended from cousins who married and am used to most of a rural village being connected but I'm fascinated and astounded that one great x 4 grandfather is descended from three daughters of a Berkshire yeoman (his 3 x great grandfather in every case) as well as from their maternal aunt. This means he's descended four times from the same couple who died only a century before he was born. Is this quite unusual?
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#2
10-11-14, 08:52
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I think it's quite unusual, but not all that unusual, lol. I have numerous instances in a village tree I have compiled and there are many even more concentrated relationships than that.
I think it proves two things: the lack of marriage partner choice in very rural communities...and also that intermarrying does not weaken the line unless the line was weak to begin with! (And doesn't it save paper when compiling a paper tree, haha) OC
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#3
10-11-14, 09:07
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Ha! I agree with the weakening of the line - at any rate, their descendants were bright sturdy folk
 - and the saving of paper! Having said that, I have spent a lot of time and paper trying to map the wider relationships in these few parishes.I wonder where all the land must have gone...
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10-11-14, 09:22
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Asa
Well, in one instance, my folk sold the farm which they had lived on for nearly 400 years to the railway and decamped into the middle of Manchester, where most of them promptly died from TB. OC
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10-11-14, 10:25
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It probably happens more times than we know.
Having researched for years and years I don't know the names of three lots of 3xg-grandparents for any of my 4xg-grandparents! In fact, I don't know the names of any of my 9xg-grandparents, never mind a team of them, or one repeated over and over! lol (actually, that may not be entirely true, as this very morning I may have found the names of my very first 9xg-grandparents, the very first people on my tree born in the 1500s - if only I could find a baptism for the 6xg I would be happier, so I may be posting a research thread any time soon!)
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"Something has been filled in that I didn't know was blank" Matthew Broderick WDYTYA? March 2010
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10-11-14, 12:16
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What gets me is that people with the same names married each other generations apart! Thomas Green and Mary Robinson married three times in my tree, in the 1500s, the 1700s and the 1800s, all from the same small village and all related.
OC
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10-11-14, 18:02
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What amazes me is the number of cousin marriages in my tree for people in London. It's not as if they were short of alternatives!
And if they didn't marry cousins, they married their uncle's wife's niece, or their cousin's wife's sister. I sometimes get the impression they never socialised outside the family.
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#10
10-11-14, 19:10
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Lindsay
I long ago realised that no one in my family tree ever married a random stranger, until my own mum and dad met during WW2. They only met because of the war and would certainly never have met any other way. I've also noticed a trend in mt family for widowers to marry a left-over on the shelf spinster rlation! I have visions of the families putting their heads together: "Eeeh! Poor old George! She died and left him with all those kids to bring up. What about our Beattie, she'd make him a good wife and he'll not be all that fussy now." Lucky old Beattie. OC
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