Talk:Myra Gale Brown

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[edit] Cousins

I don't understand why this would have freaked out the English more than the Americans. First-cousin marriage is less stigmatized in Europe than in the US. The classic example is all the interlinked royal families, but it is not exceptional in general. Is it just that this information was unearthed while they happened to be in England?24.131.12.228 19:35, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

The movie (which may not be anywhere near accurate) gives the impression that it's just that nobody had noticed until they went to England - when suddenly he was traveling with this very young girl, questions got asked. Her being a vague relation only added to the scandal of marrying a 13yo.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt were fifth cousins once removed, which hardly makes them blood relations at all.

From my (British) POV, though I'm too young to have been around at the time, I would agree with the above comment: the fact that she was 13 would have been by far the more shocking factor. (The age of consent then was 16, as now.) I wouldn't say that there's no stigma attached to someone marrying their cousin, but the Victoria/Albert example does help in that regard perhaps. 81.158.0.164 (talk) 18:11, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] First or second cousins?

This article differs from the Jerry Lee Lewis article, where the matter also has been discussed extensively on the Talk page. Can we agree that the JLL article is correct and change this one? AEriksson 12:15, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Or third cousin? (See Rolling Stone's JLL biography!) Rave by the name 10:17, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Myra's father was JLL's first cousin, making Myra JLL's first cousin once removed. See source I added to article. Ward3001 (talk) 01:22, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] JLL: had two or three children?

This article differs again from the JLL one, in which there's a 3rd child, a second son mentioned, who died of car accident at the age of 19. Rave by the name 10:14, 16 October 2007 (UTC)