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Five years have passed; the year is 1792 and George III is King

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The Cuthbert Family
DH [dec at 58]: Edward Andrew Christopher Cuthbert, 3rd Earl of Oakheart
DW [53]: Eleanor Frances Cuthbert “Nell”, Dowager Countess of Oakheart, née Southwell

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DS1 [29]: Edward Lawrence Southwell Cuthbert "Ned", 4th Earl of Oakheart (starletinwaiting)
- DW [27]: Octavia Jane Primrose Cuthbert, 4th Countess of Oakheart, née Dorset (eglantine)
-- DS [5]: Ralph Christopher Guy Cuthbert (molly)
-- DD [3]:
-- DS [nb]:

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DD1 [27]: Rose Frances Drusilla Cuthbert (solros)
- DH [49]:

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DS2 [25]: James Andrew Algernon Cuthbert (eglantine)

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An article in the papers announced the death at 58 of one Edward Cuthbert, 3rd Earl of Oakheart: a respected veteran and devoted father, he will be succeeded in the title by his eldest son, Ned. Thankfully, the illness that claimed the elder Lord Cuthbert’s life did no harm to the rest of his family, including Ned and Octavia’s younger two children, a brother and a sister for the quiet, serious Ralph. Lord Cuthbert died believing his daughter would never be persuaded to marry; however, only months after his passing she was wed to an older man, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge. Her mother does not approve of the match - the gentleman in question is scarcely younger than the mother of the bride, and a Catholic Irishman to boot! - but Ned allowed the marriage to proceed for the sake of his sister’s happiness. To Nell’s disappointment, James attended the wedding with neither a woman nor a captain’s epaulette on his arm

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Ned and Octavia’s daughter’s first name begins with R, her first middle name is her mother’s first name, and her second middle name is an uncommon Biblical name.
Their son’s first name also begins with R, his first middle name is ranked 125-145 on this list ( https://www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2018/09/top-200-most-popular-names-in-england-and-wales-in-1840-part-2.html ) and his second middle name is one of his father’s middle names.
Rose’s new husband’s first name is a common Irish name, his middle name is shared with a Catholic saint ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_saints ) and his surname is Irish.

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The Jarvis Family
DH [42]: Peter Jonathan Jarvis
DW [43]: Marguerite Lucille Jarvis “Margot”, née Desrosiers

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DD1 [20]: Joy Marguerite Jarvis (RowenaRavenclaw)
- DFiance [26]:
-- DFiance’s DD [1]:

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DD2 [16]: Mercy Geneviève Jarvis (Quicksilver)
DD3 [13]: Verity Delphine Jarvis (Darkbone)
DS1 [9]: Prosper Constantin Jarvis (Jessamine)

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Peter and Margot dedicated a great deal of time and effort to preparing Joy for her first season in what they deem fashionable society, coaching her to within an inch of her life so that there was no chance of her behaviour giving away her rather provincial roots. However, their usually docile daughter instead returned from a two-month stay with a cousin in Bath with the news that she had accepted a proposal from a local man who was made a widower after his wife died in childbirth. The two met at church, and Joy was quite taken with his daughter - Peter and Margot were both fit to faint until she added that the gentleman in question is also a viscount. Her engagement is perhaps just as well, for since the declaration of war with France, few men want to be seen to have a French mother-in-law.

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Joy’s fiance’s first name is a traditional and common English name, his first middle name is of Germanic origin ( https://www.behindthename.com/names/gender/masculine/usage/english/origin/germanic ) and his second middle name is a short English name. He goes by a nickname of his first name, and his surname is 4 letters long.
His daughter’s first name ends in -ia, her first middle name is a less common spelling or variant of a common name, and her second middle name is somehow connected to Britain.

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The Irvine Family
DH [29]: Robert Reginald Angus Irvine
DW [28]: Agnes Irvine, née Macinnes

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DS1 [10]: Magnus Duncan Fionn Irvine (Irene)
DS2/DS3 [8]: John Asa Domnall Irvine & Jacob Ezra Cailean Irvine (emmalou)
DD1 [5]: Mary Agnes Ealasaid Irvine “Merry” (AhaRememo)
DS4 [2]:
DD2 [nb]:

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Agnes had truly believed that she and Robert had finally grown to love one another with the birth of their fifth child, another son. He often took Magnus and the twins out into the countryside with him while she cared for Merry and the newborn, and at night the whole family would dine together. One evening, however, while the boys were getting ready for bed, she asked them how their day with their father had been; puzzled, they told her that they had been with their schoolmaster for much of the day. She confronted Robert, who confessed that he had been having an affair with one of the maids - worse, she was now expecting a child. Although furious, Agnes could not help but pity the girl, whose position was so similar to her own a decade ago. She agreed to take the child in and raise it as her own, telling the world that it was an orphan the family had adopted, as long as the girl was sent to work elsewhere and Robert swore to be faithful from that day onwards.

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DS4’s first name is shared with a king of Scotland ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scottish_monarchs ), his first middle name begins and ends with the first letter, and his second middle name is Scottish Gaelic.
DD2’s first name is a feminine form of a masculine name, her first middle name is Margaret (her birth mother’s first name) and her second middle name is Scottish Gaelic.

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"Do you not find it happens very often, that you are as gay as Garrick at dinner and then by supper-time you wonder why God made the world?"