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Mine certainly does. One quarter of my ancestry comes from an area of Lancashire which had three wealthy families -- the Cleggs, the Mercers, and the Taylors.
by cperciva 5y ago
Mine certainly does. One quarter of my ancestry comes from an area of Lancashire which had three wealthy families -- the Cleggs, the Mercers, and the Taylors. Those three families intermarried almost exclusively from ca. 1400 until ca. 1850.
- redis_mlc 5y agoThere still is a lot of cousin marriage today, mostly in religious pockets that are either small for the region, or shrinking rapidly (look at Lebanon or Middle Eastern countries.) In Islam, since the Prophet wanted to marry his close relatives, their kinship rules have a couple of weird cutout exceptions compared to most uniform rules in other religions.