My 4x great grandparents were brother & sister!

[Lynn The Forest Fan]

I currently have PRs for the parish of Goxhill in Lincolnshire & I was having a look at which families I had that came from the village, so that I could look up their records. I found that I had 2 families, the Youngs and the Wass family. The furthest back that I had got with the Wass family was Joseph c1780 and his wife Mary c 1774 Goxhill. I thought it might be worth looking to see if their marriage was on the IGI and I found that it was and that Mary was actually Mary Young. When I checked my Young family, I found that I did have a Mary Young, baptised December 1773, they were the same person!
So Mary is my gggg grandma on my grandma's side & her brother Robert is my gggg grandfather on my grandad's side. My grandparents were cousins, I wonder if they knew, bit late to tell them now though. :D

[KiteRunner]

Thought for a minute it was going to be something really shocking there for a minute, Lynn, but not as shocking as I thought. I think whenever you manage to get your tree back far enough that people tended to stay in the same place for generations, you will find cousin marriages.

[Lynn The Forest Fan]

I've found members of grandma & grandad's families marrying each other before, but only indirect ancestors, this is the first time I have had direct ones intermarrying. According to FTM, this makes my granparents 4th cousins, but I had worked it out as 3rd

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Thought for a minute it was going to be something really shocking there for a minute, Lynn

Me too!!!

[Lynn The Forest Fan]

No scandal in my family. :D

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

No scandal in my family. :D

You obviously haven't looked hard enough!

[Olde Crone Holden]

And me!

I was getting all cudgelled-up to say "How do you know? It is extremely unlikely this fact would be recorded, if it were true".

I have - literally - dozens of first cousin marriages in my tree. It was almost traditional in farming communities and just like the Gentry, it consolidated family wealth instead of dissipating it amongst strangers.

I have three generations of first cousin marriages in one line. Doesn't seem to have done the slightest harm - they all had huge families.

And it doesn't half save on the paper when drawing a tree, lol.

OC

[Lynn The Forest Fan]

It has certainly saved on research, as i already know the parents of Robert & Mary. I haven't found any first cousins marrying yet though.

[Lynn The Forest Fan]

You obviously haven't looked hard enough!

:D Good point, I do have a fair few illegitimates, but nothing worse at the moment.

[Little Nell]

I have a few cousin marriages and also a set of two brothers who married two sisters and then the offspring from each union married, so they were double cousins.

[Harrys mum]

Lyn...................would you like a copy of "I Am My Own Grandpa" LOL.

[Lynn The Forest Fan]

I don't think I'll need that Libby, but thanks for the thought.
I know that 4th cousins isn't a close relationship, but I was really chuffed to find the link & it was totally unexpected as well.

[gloryer]

well I just had to read the thread when I saw the title:D

[Lynn The Forest Fan]

I thought it would make an interesting thread title, whilst still being truthful.

[bev&kev]

Haven't an awful lot of peeps viewed this thread????
Wonder why ..................! :D:D

[gloryer]

lol
well at least I admitted to viewing it.

[Liz from Lancs]

And there was I thinking how strange when I found (on a side shoot) 3 sons of one family marrying 3 daughters of another family... Liz

[Lynn The Forest Fan]

People obviously thought I might have a sordid story.Thankfully for me, it wasn't :D

[Darksecretz]

awww shucks!! lol...

Now, I have Wass' in my family too Lynn............... But AFAIK mine came from Kirkby/Sutton area.

[Kit]

You could have had a very interesting and different story given the title Lynn.