"Intermarried" could be someone's idea of a legal term, although it would have been old-fashioned even in the 1890s.? I haven't heard it used for cousin marriage, but I guess it could be.? It's true, though, that cousin marriage is common in the West Indies.? My ggrandfather's sister in St. Vincent married a first cousin, and? when I was a kid in San Juan PR our neighbors were first cousins and his parents were first cousins as well.? Their kid, who was about my age, was a little hard to relate to.? Not enough genes to go around. -----Original Message----- From: Cathy A. <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:25 pm Subject: Re: [Carib] FW: Re: Belfon Research Hi Choli, I'm with Cecilia. Her definition has come up for me in the Grendada records also. Here is an example: ...whereas the said Mary Angelina intermarried with the said George LaPlace on the twenty sixth day of July one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three and the said Maria Isabella intermarried with the said Emmanuel Rodriguez on... I think it is simply the legal phraseology of the time for married. Even though in an informal sense it might mean marriage between cousins, I don't think it has the same meaning for legal documents. Cathy *************************** The Caribbean List now has a Resources Page at Historic Antigua and Barbuda http://www.rootsweb.com/~atgwgw/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

According to the online Oxford English Dictionary - you are All each one of you Correct! 1. The action or fact of intermarrying; union in or connexion by marriage. a. Of two persons, or of one person with another. Now only in legal phraseology = ‘Marriage’, in ordinary use. b. Marriage between members of different families, castes, tribes, nations, or societies, as establishing a connexion between such families, etc. 2. loosely. Marriage between persons (or interbreeding between animals) nearly related; consanguineous marriage or breeding. Hope it pleases everybody! David On 12 Apr 2008, at 01:58, [email protected] wrote: > "Intermarried" could be someone's idea of a legal term, although it > would have been old-fashioned even in the 1890s.? I haven't heard it > used for cousin marriage, but I guess it could be.? It's true, > though, that cousin marriage is common in the West Indies.? My > ggrandfather's sister in St. Vincent married a first cousin, and? > when I was a kid in San Juan PR our neighbors were first cousins and > his parents were first cousins as well.? Their kid, who was about my > age, was a little hard to relate to.? Not enough genes to go around. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cathy A. <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:25 pm > Subject: Re: [Carib] FW: Re: Belfon Research > > > > Hi Choli, > > I'm with Cecilia. Her definition has come up for me in the Grendada > records also. Here is an example: > > ...whereas the said Mary Angelina intermarried with the said George > LaPlace on the twenty sixth day of July one thousand eight hundred and > ninety-three and the said Maria Isabella intermarried with the said > Emmanuel Rodriguez on... > > I think it is simply the legal phraseology of the time for married. > Even though in an informal sense it might mean marriage between > cousins, I don't think it has the same meaning for legal documents. > > Cathy > > > *************************** > The Caribbean List now has a Resources Page at Historic Antigua and > Barbuda > http://www.rootsweb.com/~atgwgw/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of > the message > > *************************** > The Caribbean List now has a Resources Page at Historic Antigua and > Barbuda http://www.rootsweb.com/~atgwgw/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message