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Member Since: August 2005 Posts: 143 Send Message	sue	Report	26 May 2008 15:00
Member Since: August 2005 Posts: 143 Send Message	Hi Sue Thanks for your help again. Will check out the sites and have a look. Sue Just had a look have made a note of all the not allowed marriages.
Member Since: November 2002 Posts: 3,219 Send Message	Sue in Somerset	Report	26 May 2008 14:54
	First cousins can marry. They have been able to for a long time. Rules were much stricter in the Middle Ages but certainly relaxed to allow cousin marriages some time ago. If you have a prayer book you may find in it a list of prohibited marriages. This is how it stands at the moment http://www.weddingsday.co.uk/service_prohibitedmarriages/ There is an interesting snippet on marriage restrictions in various societies on here http://www.eliteweddingscyprus.eu/ Sue
Member Since: August 2005 Posts: 143 Send Message	sue	Report	26 May 2008 14:48
Member Since: August 2005 Posts: 143 Send Message	I thought first cousins were not allowed to marry. I have got some in my tree that I think have married just waiting for the cert to come. They were married in the 1900 was that allowed then or am I wrong and you can get married. Sue