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UK Aristocracy

UK Aristocracy

Posted: 21 Mar 2013 12:45PM GMT
Classification: Marriage
Am I the only person who is surprised how many USA family trees seem to have the UK aristrocracy marrying women from poor families. I am in the UK and I believe it would be so unusual as to be almost non existent. There will be children born out of wedlock, where the men of rich households thought it was OK to molest their servants, but in general the aristocracy marry aristocracy.

Re: UK Aristocracy

Posted: 21 Mar 2013 8:58PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: UK Aristocracy
Some of this is probably due to fictitious trees, but don't forget there was no aristocracy here in the US, so the aristocrats had to marry the regular folks. I'm sure that some of them married into other well to do families, but there must have been plenty whose fortunes had dwindled in the UK, and came here to start over, and others who gave up that lifestyle once they came here simply because it didn't exist.
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