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Lewis F. Allen (1800–1890 and his first cousin, Margaret Cleveland. Mark Antony and his first cousin, Antonia Hybrida Minor; B. Josiah Bartlett (1729–1795), second signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and his first cousin, Mary Bartlett [5] Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 1st Baronet and his first cousin, Millicent Agnes ...
A cousin marriage is a marriage where the spouses are cousins (i.e. people with common grandparents or people who share other fairly recent ancestors). The practice was common in earlier times and continues to be common in some societies today, though in some jurisdictions such marriages are prohibited. [1]
Through this marriage, Bale's son actor Christian Bale, one of four children from previous marriages, became Steinem's stepson. ... Cousins. Another set of famous cousins are comedian and actor ...
Virginia Eliza Poe (née Clemm; August 15, 1822 – January 30, 1847) was the wife of the American writer Edgar Allan Poe.The couple were first cousins and publicly married when Virginia Clemm was 13 and Poe was 27.
Rudy Giuliani married a first cousin, so did singer Jerry Lee Lewis, who at 22, married a 13-year-old cousin. The Bible’s Old Testament talks about cousin marriage. In one passage God instructs ...
The Habsburg Philip II of Spain and his wife, the Tudor Mary I of England.Mary and Philip were first cousins once removed. The wedding of Nicholas II of Russia and Alix of Hesse (whose name was changed to Alexandra Feodorovna in the process), second cousins through their shared great-grandparents Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Wilhelmine of Baden
Jerry Lee Lewis' marriage to his 13-year-old cousin in 1957 nearly ended his career. Today, Myra Williams, 78, reflects on the scandal and her late ex-husband.
By the 1920s, the number of states banning cousin marriage had doubled. [183] Since that time, Kentucky (1943) and Texas have banned first-cousin marriage and since 1985, Maine has mandated genetic counseling for marrying cousins to minimise risk to any serious health defect to their children.