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Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John picks up the continuing story of the three cousins Patsy Doyle, Beth De Graf, and Louise Merrick, and their family; the plot of the book begins three days after the wedding of Louise and her fiancé Arthur Weldon, the event that concluded the fifth book in the series, Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society.
A niece is female and a nephew is male, and they would call their parents' siblings aunt or uncle. The gender-neutral term nibling has been used in place of the common terms, especially in specialist literature. [1] As aunt/uncle and niece/nephew are separated by one generation, they are an example of a second-degree relationship.
A maternal uncle is the brother of one's mother. A paternal uncle is the brother of one's father. Uncle-in-law is the uncle of one's spouse or the husband of an individual's aunt or uncle. A parent's first cousin may be called a second uncle. A great-uncle [3] [4] /granduncle [5] /grand-uncle [6] is the brother of one's grandparent.
FLORENCE, Ala. -- A 25-year-old man obviously adores his four-year-old niece; so much so that when she was nervous about wearing her special princess dress to the movie 'Cinderella', her very own ...
Uncle Johnathan. He drinks much whiskey and smokes much tobacco. He is often reading books. Uncle Morton; Molla Carlsen; Miss Demming, a schoolteacher who teaches both Harriet and Marjorie. Black John; Belle Wakeley, a neighbour who lives on Blinker's Hill. Mrs Hungerford, a deaf and old neighbour. Julia Knewstubb, an 'important' neighbour.
Legitimately or illegitimately: Person knows to be ancestor, descendant, brother or sister of whole or half blood, aunt, uncle, niece or nephew. Sexual act: Up to 5y and $7,500 fine [35] Guam: An ancestor or descendant, a brother or sister of the whole or half blood or an uncle, aunt, nephew or niece of the whole blood. [36]
In an uncle–niece or a double first cousin marriage, the couple is assumed to have inherited 1/4 of their genes from a common ancestor, whereas in first cousin unions the assumption is that the couple has inherited 1/8 of their genes from a common ancestor, and for a second cousin couple the comparable proportion is 1/32.
Aunt Jane's Nieces is the title of a juvenile novel published by Reilly & Britton in 1906, and written by L. Frank Baum under the pen name "Edith Van Dyne." [1] Since the book was the first in a series of novels designed for adolescent girls, its title was applied to the entire series of ten books, published between 1906 and 1918.