Hi, this is a long shot but this is a branch of my partner's family. His granny told him that this branch had a lot of skeletons in the closet. She said that there was an incestuous branch of the family - a father had children by his own daughter (YUK!!!) and that one of her mother's siblings (=partner's G-grandmother's siblings) was born with 2 heads - a conjoined twin I suppose.
Further back in the family I found that 2 of partner's GG-grandfather's uncles were described as 'idiots' in Censuses.
Now this is all speculative but I did wonder if the 'idiocy' might be related to incest, and also could have affected the two-headed kid?
We think it's hilarious and would love to find out if there is any truth in the stories, but obviously it's not the sort of thing you get on censuses or parish records!
So, does anyone have any ideas on how we could trace the rumours?
Cheers
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