Excellent answer, Betty, and the only thing I might add it that I do suspect the brides/grooms were all related in some way. Cousins? Often we see a brother sister team marry another brother sister team [or brother/brother to sister/sister] and a day or so apart. If you have the witnesses to the weddings that might give a hint. Might also be that the priest was a traveling sort of a priest and was only going to be in that area a week or so and so many weddings crammed into that period. Janet On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Betty Gough via <cotipperary@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hello Liz > Check the time of year, the marriages took place. At that time Catholic > marriages didn't take place normally, during Lent. > Lent is a liturgical six week period prior to Easter. It begins in mid > to late Feb. > Another possible reason. They had found young men eager to marry them > shortly after arriving and they too were equally eager to marry and make > their position more secure. > Also, check if the young men travelled out with them. If so, then they > would have married as soon as they had secured work and a place to live. > So many possible reasons, and I am just guessing. Janet might come up > with something interesting. > > > > When replying to a message in the digest please do two things: > 1. Change the 'Subject' to that of the message you are replying to. > 2. Delete all the messages above and below the one you are concerned with. > Thank You. > > All of the past messages of this list can be found in the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cotipperary > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COTIPPERARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hello, It was 3 brothers and 1 sister. They all married people with different surnames, not other brothers and sisters. There was an established Catholic church in the city where they lived, Wilmington, Del. The witnesses were pretty much each other. I believe the dates are significant in some way, just don't know how yet. Liz -----Original Message----- From: Janet Crawford via Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 7:03 AM To: Betty Gough ; cotipperary@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [COTIPPERARY] Reply to Liz.- Four siblings marry over two weeks? Excellent answer, Betty, and the only thing I might add it that I do suspect the brides/grooms were all related in some way. Cousins? Often we see a brother sister team marry another brother sister team [or brother/brother to sister/sister] and a day or so apart. If you have the witnesses to the weddings that might give a hint. Might also be that the priest was a traveling sort of a priest and was only going to be in that area a week or so and so many weddings crammed into that period. Janet On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Betty Gough via <cotipperary@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hello Liz > Check the time of year, the marriages took place. At that time Catholic > marriages didn't take place normally, during Lent. > Lent is a liturgical six week period prior to Easter. It begins in mid > to late Feb. > Another possible reason. They had found young men eager to marry them > shortly after arriving and they too were equally eager to marry and make > their position more secure. > Also, check if the young men travelled out with them. If so, then they > would have married as soon as they had secured work and a place to live. > So many possible reasons, and I am just guessing. Janet might come up > with something interesting. > > > > When replying to a message in the digest please do two things: > 1. Change the 'Subject' to that of the message you are replying to. > 2. Delete all the messages above and below the one you are concerned > with. > Thank You. > > All of the past messages of this list can be found in the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cotipperary > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COTIPPERARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > When replying to a message in the digest please do two things: 1. Change the 'Subject' to that of the message you are replying to. 2. Delete all the messages above and below the one you are concerned with. Thank You. All of the past messages of this list can be found in the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cotipperary ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COTIPPERARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message