remains the formal address among that religious community (and any number of
others).
Regards
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