On 4 Jun 2015 at 10:07, F97Russell . via wrote: > My reading of this http://www.genetic-genealogy.co.uk/Toc115570145.html > seems to imply no laws have been broken but I would be interested in what > others think. > > N.B. this is only English law. And specifically Church of England Canon Law. Secular law in England allows a man to marry his deceased wife's sister or a woman to marry her deceased husband's brother (and some in our family have done that in South Africa too). -- Steve Hayes E-mail: shayes@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525