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From: "Janet Crawford" <>
Subject: Re: [IRL-LIMERICK] First
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:13:02 +0100
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On 9/13/06, <> wrote:

> My husband had a "double cousin" . His paternal grandmother's sister married
> his maternal grandfather's brother. Their daughter was his double cousin
> once removed. As she was 40 years older than hiom, he called her "aunt". There's
> a lot of this in small communities.
>
> Ann in WA


I have a double first cousin, Ann, and it happened in a big city. Our
mothers were sisters and fathers were brothers. Such relationships
were quite common in Ireland prior to the 1900's and still happen
today.

Janet

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