Brother to brother?.....

Birth, Marriage, Death

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Post by AnneM » Tue May 17, 2005 9:31 am

Hi

Marrying the sibling of a divorced spouse was not legal until the 1960s. Can't remember what year!

Anne
Anne
Researching M(a)cKenzie, McCammond, McLachlan, Kerr, Assur, Renton, Redpath, Ferguson, Shedden, Also Oswald, Le/assels/Lascelles, Bonning just for starters
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DavidWW
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Post by DavidWW » Tue May 17, 2005 2:29 pm

JustJean wrote:
DavidWW wrote:.............snipped...... - wasn't there a great song in one of the Gilbert & Sullivan operettas that referred to this, - Iolanthe... ???............

Davie
....snipped........ "We will prick that annual blister, marriage to deceased wife's sister". ....snipped............
Jean
At last :!: Another TS member who will understand any G&S quotes I throw in, and won't have to have to have it explained at length why our original three cats names were Gilbert, Sullivan (sadly departed) & D'Oyly Cat.

Davie
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JustJean
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Post by JustJean » Tue May 17, 2005 3:44 pm

DavidWW wrote:........ and won't have to have to have it explained at length why our original three cats names were Gilbert, Sullivan (sadly departed) & D'Oyly Cat.

Davie
Ah hope ye niver quit yer day joab Davie......................GGGGRRROOOAAANNNN..............................
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sporran
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Re: G&S

Post by sporran » Tue May 17, 2005 4:29 pm

Though I'm anything but clever,
I could talk like that for ever:
Once a cat was killed by care;
Only brave deserve the fair.

H.M.S. Pinafore
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DavidWW
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Re: G&S

Post by DavidWW » Tue May 17, 2005 5:34 pm

sporran wrote:Though I'm anything but clever,
I could talk like that for ever:
Once a cat was killed by care;
Only brave deserve the fair.

H.M.S. Pinafore
Who, when, where, which Act, sung that ??!!

Davie
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sporran
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Re: G&S

Post by sporran » Tue May 17, 2005 6:24 pm

Hello Davie,
DavidWW wrote:Who, when, where, which Act, sung that ??!!

Davie
Early in Act II when Captain comes down from poop-deck to join Buttercup on quarter-deck, and she sings in riddles about "Things are seldom what they seem".

Before the bit about the cat, he sings:
"Stern convictions's o'er me stealing,
That the mystic lady's dealing
In oracular revealing."

Particularly apt considering the database in use on SP!


Regards,

John
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Post by DTCWa » Tue May 17, 2005 6:25 pm

Haw youse !!

I am a perfectly bootiful wee cat, long haired, with feline aristocratic connections in terms of a probable Burmese connection somewhere in my very recent ancestry, before I was rescued from a year living in the wild by my new humans, - sadly abandoned by my previous humans, - so just watch it, ken, in terms of how you refer to my brilliant wee name, otherwise I'll come across and mollicate you, ken, and be warned, my claws are very sharp.

D'Oyly The Cat Webster
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JustJean
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Re: G&S

Post by JustJean » Tue May 17, 2005 6:29 pm

DavidWW wrote:
sporran wrote:Though I'm anything but clever,
I could talk like that for ever:
Once a cat was killed by care;
Only brave deserve the fair.

H.M.S. Pinafore
Who, when, where, which Act, sung that ??!!

Davie
Twas the Captain during a duet with Little Buttercup...Act 2....Song 14....in the aforementioned production of HMS Pinafore of course!

Whit do I win? :wink:
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DavidWW
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Re: G&S

Post by DavidWW » Tue May 17, 2005 6:31 pm

JustJean wrote:I Whit do I win? :wink:
A prize, of course, but just what might it be??...... #-o

Davie
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DavidWW
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Re: G&S

Post by DavidWW » Tue May 17, 2005 6:33 pm

JustJean wrote:....snipped ...........Twas the Captain during a duet with Little Buttercup...Act 2....Song 14....in the aforementioned production of HMS Pinafore of course! ......snipped ............
Aye but wis that the original London production, or the "pirated" NY production ?? :?

Davie
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