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Some interesting relationshipsEveryone has relatives who married relatives in their family tree. (There wouldn't be enough ancestors to go around if they didn't.) Some are a little more startling than others, though. My favorite in my own line is my 2nd great grandmother, Mary Louisa BROWN, whose mother, father, and husband all were first cousins of one another! That is, her father's mother, mother's mother, and husband's father were all siblings. They also were second cousins on their mother's side and third cousins on their father's side of Mary's father's father, who was himself a child of two first cousins:
Thomas BROWN = Mary NEWHALL
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Eleazer BROWN Jeremiah MAIN Thomas BROWN
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James BROWN Annah BROWN = Thomas MAIN Jeremiah MAIN Mary BROWN
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Zebulon BROWN = Anne MAIN Ruth MAIN = Bell YORK
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Zebulon BROWN = Thede YORK Mary YORK Yeomans YORK
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Zebulon BROWN = Sarah LEWIS |
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Mary Louisa BROWN = Lelen Collins YORK
This is the sort of thing that sends genealogists running to the
nearest mirror to count their eyebrows...
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