Show ONE LARGE CLAN remarkable number of unions be tween cousins belong nato fam ly the founder of the rothschild fam lly mayer amschel of the red shield dying in 1812 exhorted his five sons engaged as under him in frankfort vienna london par s and naples not only to remain faithful to the law of moses and stand ever united but to undertake nothing of importance without firs consulting mother nathan founder 0 the london branch also a so convinced of the business capacities of his wife a cohen that he not only deft the h ige residue of his fortune at her d but says the ladies realm added instructions that his sons were to en gage in no undertaking of moment without her consent how tar the instruction was ob served one is not in a position to say but it is certain the fillds have done th lr best to family unity or from the gentile point of view the number that have married cousins Is appalling of the five ahll dren of the great nathan each lied a cousin and coming to contemporaries lord rothschild Is the son of ns and the husband of ism re turning to nathan the sidonia of though his offspring married cousins a reaction followed in the next generation for three of his granddaughters two of whom have been already named married not on out of the family but out of elih faith 1 L |