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To: Ilaine who wrote (79090)10/20/2004 11:30:24 AM
From: Ann Corrigan  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 793958
 
CB, marriage between first cousins was rampant throughout England and indeed all of Europe, up to the end of the 19thC. They were not yet aware of the dangers of mingling closely related blood lines. Evidently it became taboo around turn of the century.