[PaulaC]

In New Zealand it is legal for first cousins to marry – but not for second cousins. Don’t ask me about the logic for that but I always presumed it was due to genetic differentiation.

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[PaulaC]

I think this relates back to the tradition of a family business or trade – where a father passes the business on to his son. Many businesses were named “Johnson and Sons,” etc. I’m presuming that the practice of naming the son the same as the father also came from this practice, and to to preserve special names in the family, and that “Senior” and “Junior” terms were used to denote which John Smith a person wished to speak with.

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