Cheri,
1st degree of consanguinity: Uncle/niece or aunt/nephew marriage. Rare.
This is called 1st and 2nd degree.
First degree would never be allowed, because that's siblings marrying each other - except in Eastern Kentucky... :-)
I have one where he married his mother-in-law. They had no children.
Joao Ventura, the archivist in Terceira, explained to me that it was
improper back in time to have a woman in the house taking care of the
kids, even if it was grandma! So he married her to get the children
taken care of (his wife died in childbirth).
I suppose this must be clarified, because it was quite normal to have a servant in the house and just exactly what that servant did could only be known by observation - impossible to know now.
Doug da Rocha Holmes
Sacramento, California
Pico & Terceira Genealogist
916-550-1618
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