Sent from my iPad > On Apr 14, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Dave H via <fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > The Heir Hunter programme on BBC now and then is interesting in that > even today English Law and Scottish Law differs as to who can inherit. > > DH > > > >> On 14/04/2015 15:52, DSA2003 via wrote: >> Until the law changed (ca. 20 or 30 years ago), not in England Shirley, but in Scotland, an illegitimate child was legitimated if his parents married later AND they had been free to do so at the time of his birth. >> >> Quite a few years ago now, there was an article in a family history magazine on this subject. An an example, the article used the case of a member of the nobility who had both a Scottish and an English title. The man first had an illegitimate son, then married the mother of his son, and after the marriage had a second son. In other words, he had two sons by the same woman, one before, and one after his marriage. >> >> When he died, the first son inherited the Scottish title because he’d been legitimated in Scottish law by his parents subsequent marriage. However, the English title went to the second son as he’d been born after the his parent’s marriage. >> >> Regards >> >> David Armstrong >> >> Maylands >> Western Australia > > > ================================== > > https://www.google.ie/ > ================================== > http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/placenames/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FERMANAGH-GOLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Ah ha! Here we have a fine example of "splitting heirs" ;-) Cliff. On Tuesday, April 14, 2015 3:21 PM, Caroline via <fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com> wrote: Sent from my iPad > On Apr 14, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Dave H via <fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > The Heir Hunter programme on BBC now and then is interesting in that > even today English Law and Scottish Law differs as to who can inherit. > > DH > > > >> On 14/04/2015 15:52, DSA2003 via wrote: >> Until the law changed (ca. 20 or 30 years ago), not in England Shirley, but in Scotland, an illegitimate child was legitimated if his parents married later AND they had been free to do so at the time of his birth. >> >> Quite a few years ago now, there was an article in a family history magazine on this subject. An an example, the article used the case of a member of the nobility who had both a Scottish and an English title. The man first had an illegitimate son, then married the mother of his son, and after the marriage had a second son. In other words, he had two sons by the same woman, one before, and one after his marriage. >> >> When he died, the first son inherited the Scottish title because he’d been legitimated in Scottish law by his parents subsequent marriage. However, the English title went to the second son as he’d been born after the his parent’s marriage. >> >> Regards >> >> David Armstrong >> >> Maylands >> Western Australia > > > ================================== > > https://www.google.ie/ > ================================== > http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/placenames/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FERMANAGH-GOLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ================================== https://www.google.ie/ ================================== http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/placenames/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FERMANAGH-GOLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message