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Violet Kray
Violet Anne Kray, née Lee (1909–1982), mother of East London gangster twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray; married Charles Kray in 1926, lived at 178 Vallance Road, Bethnal Green, and was buried at Chingford Mount in 1982.
Westermarck effect
The Westermarck effect, or reverse sexual imprinting, is the hypothesized sexual aversion between people raised together in early childhood, proposed by Edvard Westermarck in 1891, opposed by Freud, and tested through Taiwan minor marriages and Israeli kibbutzim.
Western European marriage pattern
Western European marriage pattern, or European marriage pattern (EMP), is the Hajnal-described regime of late female marriage (~25), high celibacy (>10%), and low illegitimacy west of the Hajnal line (St Petersburg–Trieste) from the 16th century to WWI, linked to Malthusian preventive checks and economic development debates.
William Jefferson Blythe Jr.
William Jefferson Blythe Jr. (also printed as Blythe III), 1918–1946, American traveling salesman, first husband of Virginia Dell Cassidy and father of Bill Clinton; died in a May 18, 1946 car accident near Sikeston, Missouri, three months before his son's birth.
Xhosa clan names
Xhosa clan names (iziduko, singular isiduko; also isibongo) are patrilineal kinship names of the Xhosa people of South Africa's Eastern Cape, passed father to son, governing marriage exogamy, attached to praise poems, and among some clans (abeLungu) tracing to non-African forebears.
Zübeyde Hanım
Zübeyde Hanım (1857, Langaza – 14 January 1923, İzmir), mother of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk; Yörük Turkmen descent; married Ali Rıza Efendi in 1871; buried at Karşıyaka, İzmir.