In 1880, the French government awarded Bell the Volta Prize of 50, 000 francs ( approximately US $ 10, 000 at that time, about $ in current dollars ) for the invention of the telephone, which he used to found the Volta Laboratory, along with Sumner Tainter and Bell's cousin Chichester Bell.

Through his mother, John Adams was a second cousin of Massachusetts governor Increase Sumner ; their maternal grandmothers were sisters.

( Chisum's sister Nancy was married to Loving's cousin, B. F. Bourland and had known Chisum for many years ) They spent the winter of 1866-67 there and supplied cattle from the ranch to Fort Sumner and Santa Fe.

Their father was Robert Sumner and their mother was Hannah Bird, a first cousin of William Wilberforce.

These improvements were invented by Alexander Bell's cousin Chester Bell, a chemist, and Charles Sumner Tainter, an optical instrument maker, at Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory in Washington, D. C. Hubbard and Chester Bell approached Edison about combining their interests, but Edison refused, resulting in the Volta Laboratory Association merging the shares of their Volta Graphophone Company with the company that later evolved into Columbia Records in 1886.

* Annia Galeria Faustina Minor or Faustina the Younger ( between 125 – 130 – 175 ), a future Roman Empress, married her maternal cousin, future Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in 146.

* He married, on November 2, 1896, in Poona, India, Shahzadi Begum, his first cousin and a granddaughter of Aga Khan I.

Between 1 BC-5, Agrippina married her second maternal cousin Germanicus.

Afonso was first married to his cousin Isabella of Coimbra in 1447.

On 23 January 1878 at the Basilica of Atocha in Madrid, Alfonso married his cousin, Princess Maria de las Mercedes, daughter of Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, but she died within six months of the marriage.

* John ( 1331 – 1358 ), Lord of Elche, Biel and Bolsa, married in 1355 to Isabel Núñez de Lara and was killed by order of his cousin Pedro of Castile.

In addition to being married to Jochebed, Amram is also described in the Bible as having been related to Jochebed prior to the marriage, although the exact relationship is uncertain ; some Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Septuagint state that Jochebed was Amram's father's cousin, and others state that Amram was Jochebed's cousin, but the Masoretic text states that he was Jochebed's nephew.

Some years after divorcing Aelia Paetina, in 38 or early 39, Claudius married Valeria Messalina, who was his first cousin once removed and closely allied with Caligula's circle.

As an extra measure to ensure the loyalty of his cousin, he married the elder of his two sisters, Constantina, to him.

) Through Ruhangiz's efforts, Shoghi Effendi's other sister and his cousin Thurayya also married sons of Siyyid Ali Afnan.

In Baltimore in 1835, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin.

Poe married his 13-year old cousin, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe | Virginia Clemm.

Returning to Baltimore, Poe secretly married Virginia, his cousin, on September 22, 1835.

Ninken married to Emperor Yūryaku's daughter Kasuga no Ōiratsume no Himemiko, a second cousin of him.

The song " Going to the Chapel " is then played as we see Henrietta marry a member of the guard, Scarlett marry Chester, David marry his girlfriend, Tom marry his distant cousin Deirdre ( whom he met at Charles's wedding and instantly fell for ), Matthew with a new partner ( Duncan Kenworthy ), Fiona marry Prince Charles ( a joke ), and Charles and Carrie with their son -- presumably not married.

Likewise a daughter of the last Tokugawa Shogun married a second cousin of Emperor Shōwa.

# On 6 January 1808, he married again to another first cousin, Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este ( 14 December 1787 – 7 April 1816 ) with no issue.

Frederick William married his first cousin Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, George II's younger sister ( daughter of his uncle, King George I of Great Britain and Sophia Dorothea of Celle ) on 28 November 1706.

Germanicus married his maternal second cousin Agrippina the Elder, a granddaughter of Augustus, between 5 and 1 BC.

* Major George Ashley Wilkes: The gallant Ashley married his cousin, Melanie, because " Like must marry like or there'll be no happiness.

In 1891, Wells married his cousin Isabel Mary Wells ; the couple agreed to separate in 1894 when he fell in love with one of his students, Amy Catherine Robbins ( known as Jane ), whom he married in 1895.

Mary then married her cousin Philip, son of the emperor Charles V, and King of Spain when Charles abdicated in 1556.

* Maria Hester Monroe ( 1803 – 1850 ) – married her cousin Samuel L. Gouverneur on March 8, 1820, in the first wedding of a president's child in the White House.

The two countries had shared a monarch since the Union of the Crowns in 1603, when King James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne from his double first cousin twice removed, Queen Elizabeth I.

She was succeeded by her second cousin, George I, of the House of Hanover, who was a descendant of the Stuarts through his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth, daughter of James VI & I.

After James II was deposed in 1688 and replaced by his daughter Mary II, ruling jointly with her husband and first cousin ( James's nephew ) William III, the Stuarts lived in exile, occasionally attempting to regain the throne.

In 1777 Madison's cousin, the Right Reverend James Madison ( 1749 – 1812 ), became president of The College of William & Mary.

In 1764, Watt married his cousin Margaret ( Peggy ) Miller, with whom he had five children, two of whom lived to adulthood: James Jr. ( 1769 – 1848 ) and Margaret ( 1767 – 1796 ).

When James told Mary that she was to marry her cousin, " she wept all that afternoon and all the following day.

The Pope's cousin, Francesco Maria Conti, from Siena, became chamberlain of James ' little court in the Roman Muti Palace.

The cousin, in turn had been named by Lardner's uncle, Rear Admiral James L. Lardner, who had decided to name his son after a friend, Rear Admiral Cadwalader Ringgold, who was from a distinguished military family.

* September 1 – Seton Hall University is founded by Archdiocese of Newark Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley, a cousin of U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt and nephew of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton.

* King James I of Cyprus inherits the title of King of Armenia after the death of his distant cousin Leo VI ( although the Mamluk conquerors from Egypt remain the true rulers ).

James and John first were disciples of Saint John the Baptist, their second cousin.

She returned to England in early 1522, in order to marry her Irish cousin James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond ; however, the marriage plans ended in failure and she secured a post at court as maid of honour to Henry VIII's queen consort, Catherine of Aragon.

Anne was recalled to marry her Irish cousin, James Butler, a young man who was several years older than she was and who was living at the English court, in an attempt to settle a dispute over the title and estates of the Earldom of Ormond.

* King Peter IV of Aragon defeats and deposes his cousin, James III of Majorca, thereby absorbing the Balearic Kingdom of Majorca into the Crown of Aragon.

She was succeeded by her second cousin George I of the House of Hanover, who was a descendant of the Stuarts through his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth, daughter of James VI and I.

She was christened there on 23 September 1900, in the local parish church, All Saints, and her godparents included her paternal aunt Lady Maud Bowes-Lyon and cousin Mrs Arthur James.

The nearby small town of Johnson City, Texas, was named after LBJ's father's cousin, James Polk Johnson, whose forebears had moved west from Oglethorpe County, Georgia.

James maintained some contact with his subjects during his captivity including his cousin Murdoch Stewart, Albany's son, who was captured in 1402 — initially they were held apart but from 1413 until Murdoch's release in 1415 they were together in the Tower of London and at Windsor Castle.

The Book of Pluscarden describes ' a detestable split and most unworthy difference arising from jealosy ' within the Scottish camp and the historian Michael Brown explains that a contemporary source has James appointing his young and inexperienced cousin Robert Stewart of Atholl as the constable of the host ahead of the experienced march wardens the earls of Douglas and Angus.

As such, he claimed the English, Scottish and Irish thrones ( as James III of England and Ireland and James VIII of Scotland ) from the death of his father in 1701, when he was recognized as king of England, Scotland and Ireland by his cousin Louis XIV of France.

There, James was recognised by his cousin, King Louis XIV of France, as the rightful heir to the English and Scottish thrones and became the focus for the Jacobite movement.

James was then sent to Monzón, where he was entrusted to the care of William of Montreuil, the head of the Knights Templar in Spain and Provence ; the regency meanwhile fell to his great uncle Sancho, Count of Roussillon, and his son, the king's cousin, Nuño.

* Edward James Salisbury ( 1886 – 1978 ), director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew from 1943 to 1956 ; cousin of Frank O. Salisbury

* Frank O. Salisbury ( 1874-1962 ), artist ; cousin of Edward James Salisbury