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  2. Cousin marriage - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. Kinship terminology - Wikipedia

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    Kinship terminology is the system used in languages to refer to the persons to whom an individual is related through kinship.Different societies classify kinship relations differently and therefore use different systems of kinship terminology; for example, some languages distinguish between consanguine and affinal uncles (i.e. the brothers of one's parents and the husbands of the sisters of ...

  4. Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the husband of Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone has no courtesy title; he was simply called "Mr Peter Bottomley" until he was knighted and became "Sir Peter Bottomley". In 2012, Conservative MP Oliver Colvile put forward a Ten Minute Rule bill to allow the spouse of a woman who holds an honour, if he or she enters civil partnership or ...

  5. Consanguinity - Wikipedia

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    It is seldom possible to identify fourth-degree cousins, since few people can trace their full family tree back more than four generations. (Nor is it considered important, since fourth cousins tend to be genetically no more similar to each other than they are to any other individual from the same region.) [26]

  6. List of peerages inherited by women - Wikipedia

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    This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. Find sources: "List of peerages inherited by women" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2011) In the peerages of the British Isles, most titles have traditionally been created for ...

  7. Uncle - Wikipedia

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    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 [4] [5] /granduncle [6] /grand-uncle [7] is the brother of one's grandparent.

  8. Woman Called 'Horrible' and 'Selfish' After Refusing to Let ...

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    The bride announced her relationship with her soon-to-be husband at her stepsister's wedding, which "annoyed" the poster but she "let it go" because the moment didn't take long. The two got ...

  9. Cousin marriage law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Data on cousin marriage in the United States are sparse. It was estimated in 1960 that 0.2% of all marriages between Roman Catholics were between first or second cousins, but no more recent nationwide studies have been performed. [177] It is unknown what proportion of that number were first cousins, which is the group facing marriage bans.