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[LoneyBones]

It can get very confusing at times 
Even in the best of families.
Cheers,
Leonie.

[aghadowey]

Husband's grandmother and sister married twin brothers, lived next to each other and no one outside the family knew which children belonged to which family.
My grandmother's father had a sister who married her (grandmother's) mother's brother. Each family had 6 girls and one boy. The two families along with mother's parents and another brother of mother with his family lived in the same house.
My grandfather's mother and her sister married two brothers and they lived near each other. Unfortunately the sisters fell out over mother's property after she died and never spoke again (first one died 25 years late). However, after both wives died the 2 brothers met again.
Lots more cases with families intermarried and think it was very common.

[Josephine]

My grandmother's father had a sister who married her (grandmother's) mother's brother.

She married her biological uncle?

Regards,
Josephine

[Siamese Girl]

Th OH has 4 sets of first cousins marrying each other - 3 from the same  set of parents (which included his gt gt grandparents) with the other marrying a cousin from another aunt. The two unmarried children lived their lives with their various brother/sisters/in-law cousins. While the last one married a girl from the other end of the country and went to live in America ..... I don't entirely blame him!

Carole

[Bellejazz]

I have 2 cases of 2 sisters marrying 2 brothers.

- Belinda.

[gig]

i have  three sides of the same family balls hills and vardy
all 3 families lived in 3 adjouning villages and from around 1750
,bet its still goin on now  just kept marrying in to each others family ( i feel like a royal family )  we all still live local
the family joke is we seem to move a mile every hundred years
gigg

[sueky71]

I think this is quite common (I'm sure there's a thread about this somewhere on here)

I know in my family, I've got a few cases of sisters of one family marrying brothers of another family (and vice versa)
I've also got cousins and 2nd cousins marrying within the family. It can be a pain to sort them out though because family names keep getting repeated. So you end up with a generation of children all bearing the same/similar names, born in the same era.

In my family this happens the most in rural areas in the 17th/18th century.

[aghadowey]

My grandmother's father had a sister who married her (grandmother's) mother's brother.

She married her biological uncle?

Regards,
Josephine

No Josephine, my grandmother's father had a sister Margaret who married my grandmother's mother's brother George. Thus all the children from both marriages were double 1st cousins and shared all the same relatives.
However, I do know of a family nearby where a girl (born in America to Irish parents) came to Ireland after her mother died and married her maternal uncle.

[Josephine]

Phew, thanks, aghadowey!

Now I get it!     I must be especially dense today!

Regards,
Josephine