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Question from Reader Regarding “Abeyance” and Daughters Inheriting

Question: I was looking for names and titles I could use for a story in an older copy of Debrett’s. Some of the titles in abeyance had been in that state since the 1200 hundreds.  One  peerage was called out of abeyance in 1836 … Continue reading

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What is the Difference Between a Peerage That is “Dormant,” “Extinct” or in “Abeyance”?

I was recently looking for names and titles to use for characters in a list of extinct  and abeyant peerages in an online copy of  Debrett’s from the mid 1800s. Some of the titles in abeyance had been in that state since the … Continue reading

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