This article focuses on the kinship networks of the landed gentry of Devon, Lincolnshire and Hertfordshire in the modern period. Using national census household returns, the visitors’ books of a Devon gentry family and correspondence the article reveals dense and meaningful kinship networks centred on the main country house but also woven into the wider familial world of the gentry. Whenever possible, the inheritance of landed estates passed through the male line. But kin networks were bilateral, founded on both birth and marriage, on relations both through the male and the female line. Kin relations provided a range of services within a culture of visiting, epistolary practice and affection, which generated close and cherished family ties.

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19 世纪和 20 世纪初期的亲属社区和英国土地绅士家庭

本文关注的是现代时期德文郡、林肯郡和赫特福德郡的地主贵族的亲属关系网络。文章利用全国人口普查户籍数据、德文郡一个士绅家庭的游记和书信，揭示了密集而有意义的亲属关系网络，以主要的乡间别墅为中心，但也交织在更广阔的绅士家庭世界中。只要有可能，地主庄园的继承就会通过男性世系。但是亲属网络是双边的，建立在出生和婚姻的基础上，建立在男性和女性血统的关系上。亲属关系在探访、书信和亲情的文化中提供了一系列服务，从而产生了亲密和珍惜的家庭关系。