Kinship terms (was: Gayer ancestry)

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John Parsons

Kinship terms (was: Gayer ancestry)

Legg inn av John Parsons » 22 apr 2005 15:46:54

Quakers would probably have used "brother" or "sister," which I believe
remains the formal address among that religious community (and any number of
others).

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John P.


From: "Peter Stewart" <p_m_stewart@msn.com
To: GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: Gayer ancestry
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 12:20:13 GMT

"starbuck95" <starbuck95@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Usually a 1st or 2nd cousin in this time period, I think.

Thanks, that seems to be the standard meaning that old-fashioned British
people without a special interest in genealogy use today, with more distant
relatives usually given some qualification.

I wonder if different sectarians might still have used the word more
broadly
in the early 18th-century - without referring to the example you gave,
would
Quakers or other non-Conformists have tended to use "cousin" for all of
their community members, even for people who were not related to the
speaker/writer by blood?

Peter Stewart


Peter Stewart

Re: Kinship terms (was: Gayer ancestry)

Legg inn av Peter Stewart » 22 apr 2005 15:46:55

John Parsons wrote:

Quakers would probably have used "brother" or "sister," which I
believe remains the formal address among that religious community
(and any number of others).

Sorry, I wasn't clear enough - I meant to ask John what term Quakers or
others (e.g. the various Methodist "connexions") might have extended to
those members of their civic communities who may not have been fellow
sectarians.

I don't have a clue about this. One old Quaker lady I knew many years
ago had been rescued from Lincolnshire sea-floods in the 1950s by local
men she called "cousins" in narrating the incident, even though they
were not "brethren" and not relatives of hers.

Peter Stewart

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