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From: "Elise G. Jourdan" <>
Subject: Re: [PIATT] Elizabeth Hannah Piatt, brn 1828
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 09:27:56 -0400
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Hi, Ed, The world was pretty small in the early days and there wasn't a
large pool of possible spouses to choose from. In my line I have some
cousins marrying:
Robert Piatt (1830-1883) s/o John of Daniel of John of Jacob of Regnier m.
his cousin Catherine Canby (1828-1888) d/o of Robert of Daniel of John of
Jacob of Regnier; they were the parents of my great-grandfather Dr. Louis H.
Piatt of Boone Co., KY. Elise Greenup Jourdan
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From: "ed pyeatt" <>
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Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 2:55 AM
Subject: Re: [PIATT] Elizabeth Hannah Piatt, brn 1828


> Anita -
> Brothers marrying sisters, etc. may
> not be so far fetched, after all. In the
> Pyeatt (Piatt) lineage we find, about
> 1700, the brothers, Jacob and Thomas
> Pyatt marrying the Hull sisters, Mary and
> Mercy, respectively. Then, in about 1790,
> the Pyeatt brothers (Maj.) Jacob and
> James married the Finley sisters,
> Margaret and Catherine, and emigrating
> as a group to (what is now) Arkansas
> in 1810. Then we find the son and daughter of (Maj.) Jacob and Margaret,
> John and Mary marrying Martha (Patsy)
> Carnahan and her brother, Samuel.
> The grandsons of (Maj.) Jacob and
> Margaret, John, Andrew (my ggf), and
> their nephew, Peter, marrying the
> daughters of Thos. H. Tennant,
> Margaret, Miranda (my ggm), and
> Nettie Tennant. These marriages
> span the family history from New England
> to North Carolina to Arkansas.
> On my mother's side, we have my
> gf, C.H.Roberts wed to Alice Hay,
> who bore him the first four of his eight
> children. She died in 1910, following
> the birth of my uncle, Chas. Roberts.
> C.H. Roberts then married Alice Hay's
> sister, Ninnie Lou Hay. I suppose that,
> should Ninnie Lou (Hay) Roberts have
> died, Clyde H. could have married the
> remaining Hay, Flora.
> I doubt seriously that these were
> all that isolated, as marriages went,
> and may still happen. There was strength
> in numbers in the past, and the group
> loyalty would be enhanced by sibling
> marriages. In fact, that is probably
> still the case. Don't discount it as a possibility, the evidence is
> right there, in the family history.
> Keep searching, and be prepared for
> pleasant and interesting surprises.
> Ed
>
>
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