Weddings (appendix)

Table of Kindred and Affinity
No person is able to marry within the degrees expressed below

A man may not marry his: mother, adoptive mother or former adoptive mother, daughter, adoptive daughter or former adoptive daughter, father's mother, mother's mother, son's daughter, daughter's daughter, sister, wife's mother, wife's daughter, father's wife, son's wife, father's father's wife, mother's father's wife, wife's father's mother, wife's mother's mother, wife's son's daughter, wife's daughter's daughter, son's son's wife, daughter's son's wife, father's sister, mother's sisters, brother's daughter, sister's daughter.

A woman may not marry her: father, adoptive father or former adoptive father, son, adoptive son or former adoptive son, father's father, mother's father, son's son, daughter's son, brother, husband's father, husband's son, mother's husband, daughter's husband, father's mother's husband, mother's mother's husband, husband's father's father, husband's mother's father, husband's son's son, husband's daughter's son, son's daughter's husband, daughter's daughter's husband, father's brother, mother's brother, brother's son, sisters's son.

In the above the term 'brother' includes a brother of the half-blood, and the term 'sister' includes a sister of the half-blood.

Previously dissolved marriages

Please contact a member of the clergy, who will advise on a Church marriage, or the blessing in Church of a civil marriage.

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