Marrying cousins was astoundingly cdrnmon •intOcthe nineteenth Century, and,
nowhere is this better illustrated than Yith the Darwins and their cousins the
Wedgwoods (of pottery fame). Charlesmarried .his firsteousin Emma
Wedgwood, daughter of his beloved unc!e gosiah. Parwin's sister Caroline,
meanwhile, married Josiah Wedgwpod, Emma's' brother and the Darwin
siblings' joint first cousin. Another of Emma's:brothers, Henry uhfarried not a
Darwin first cousin from anothér branch of his own W wood family,
adding an-othér--Strand to the family's Wondrously conVolutedg
Finally,
Charles Langton, who was not related to'either-family, first ChSr10tte
Wedgwood, another daughterof Josiah_ÅDd cousin of Charle?;' an' - on
Charlotte's death married Darv.'in's siste*mily, thus becoming-sit
sister-in-law's faiéing the possibili " th
children of the union Idebertheir own first
sins. ¯BillB
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