Genealogy Chat

Does anyone know what the prohibited relationships were in 1866? I have tried looking on Google but couldn't find anything useful. Thanks ann Glos

This what you are looking for? http://www(.)eskimo(.)com/~lhowell/bcp1662/misc/kindred(.)html

My Gt Gt Grandfather married his wife's sister after she died and I didn't think it was allowed then. Ann Glos

Ann It was prohibited according to the Book of Common Prayer but I have a great grandmother who married two brothers in succession - the second marriage was in 1852 in a CofE church but not in the parish the brothers came from:) David

One of my relli's married his step sister. And a set of 1st cousins married and there were Catholic. Diane.

I thought it was just close blood relatives that couldn't marry but that first cousins were allowed (though disapproved of). So man marrying his sister in law would have been allowed as they weren't blood relatives.

Most of my family seem to have selections of 1st cousins marrying .I suppose it happened in little villages all the time. (that's if they bothered marrying at all.) I suppse if you didn't have to provide documents the vicar wouldn't necessarily know , or he turned a blind eye. Kim

Remember Henry VIII's reason for divorcing his first wife Catherine of Aragon? Joy

A Table of Kindred and Affinity, Wherein Whosoever Are Related Are Forbidden in Scripture and Our Laws to Marry Together. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Man may not marry his GRANDMOTHER, Grandfather's Wife, Wife's Grandmother. Father's Sister, Mother's Sister, Father's Brother's Wife. Mother's Brother's Wife, Wife's Father's Sister, Wife's Mother's Sister. Mother, Step-Mother, Wife's Mother. Daughter, Wife's Daughter, Son's Wife. Sister, Wife's Sister, Brother's Wife. Son's Daughter, Daughter's Daughter, Son's Son's Wife. Daughter's Son's Wife, Wife's Son's Daughter, Wife's Daughter's Daughter. Brother's Daughter, Sister's Daughter, Brother's Son's Wife. Sister's Son's Wife, Wife's Brother's Daughter, Wife's Sister's Daughter. A Woman may not marry with her GRANDFATHER, Grandmother's Husband, Husband's Grandfather. Father's Brother, Mother's Brother, Father's Sister's Husband. Mother's Sister's Husband, Husband's Father's Brother, Husband's Mother's Brother. Father, Step-Father, Husband's Father. Son, Husband's Son, Daughter's Husband. Brother, Husband's Brother, Sister's Husband. Son's Son, Daughter's Son, Son's Daughter's Husband. Daughter's Daughter's Husband, Husband's Son's Son, Husband's Daughter's Son. Brother's Son, Sister's Son, Brother's Daughter's Husband. Sister's Daughter's Husband, Husband's Brother's Son, Husband's Sister's Son. 1662 book of common prayer An act of 1835 made marriages to in-laws illegal but they did continue. They were legalised in 1907/1921 Bob

Thanks Bob that was what I was looking for. Incidentally the second marriage was held far from the parish they all came from. Originally came from Dorset, second marriage was in Southampton. Ann Glos

Gosh, in some small villages that would rule out marrying anybody!

oh Helen - that was so funny lol Magsx

And how many women want to marry their husband's grandfather I wouldn't like to know... Interesting stuff though.

Golly -what horrors must have confronted the poor missionaries on isolated Pacific Islands when they arrived - not just naked bodies obviously! Arohanui Marlene