Dukes of Hazzard question?!
Question: I'm sitting here watching the movie again and I have a question. Bo, Luke and Daisy are all cousins which means they all have different parents and Jesse is the uncle which means he is the father to none of them. So my question is; Who are their parents and where are they, why did Jesse have to raise them all. The only situation I can come up with is that Jesse had three siblings, one for each of the Duke kids and they all died and that's why Jesse had to raise Bo, Luke and Daisy. Anyone else have a better (serious) answer?
Answers: I'm sitting here watching the movie again and I have a question. Bo, Luke and Daisy are all cousins which means they all have different parents and Jesse is the uncle which means he is the father to none of them. So my question is; Who are their parents and where are they, why did Jesse have to raise them all. The only situation I can come up with is that Jesse had three siblings, one for each of the Duke kids and they all died and that's why Jesse had to raise Bo, Luke and Daisy. Anyone else have a better (serious) answer?
Many people have tried to decipher the Duke's family tree in an attempt to understand how it is that so many people could be cousins, all with the last name "Duke." The last unofficial word is that Jesse Duke would have had to have come from a family of seven boys, including himself, as he would have had to have six brothers to have produced offspring named "Duke", unless Jesse had one or more sisters who married men with the surname "Duke" (a situation not out of the realm of possibility).
Brother 1 — Luke and Jud Kane's father [Jud Kane appeared the episode "Brotherly Love" (Episode 4, Season 6. Original airdate: 14 October 1983). He is the long lost younger brother of Luke Duke, thought to have died in a hospital fire as an infant]
Brother 2 — Bo's father
Brother 3 — Daisy's father
Brother 4 — Coy's father
Brother 5 — Vance's father
Brother 6 — Jeb Stuart's father [Jeb Stuart Duke appeared in the third season episode "Along Came a Duke". He rides into Hazzard on a motocross bike]
Brother 7 — Jesse Duke
Considering Jesse's advanced age, it is possible he may have been a great-uncle to Bo, Luke and Daisy, and thus the brother of their grandfather. As the term "cousin" has a wide range of familial applications, it isn't strictly necessary for all the various cousins depicted on the show to be first cousins.
Well from what i remember from the show. They all live with Uncle Jesse in the summer to work for him. well the boys any way cause they run shine for him. And as for there parents Idk if that was ever answered in the show. it never mentioned them I dont think. But they always did have a mess of new cousins showing up. Like when the original actors left for a few seasons they brought in new actors and said they were different cousins. So Idk about the parents.