This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3kz.2ACIB/937.1 Message Board Post: Remember that there were few people back then in many places. Multiple marriages between families, not only brothers and sisters but cousins, were quite common. Also there was a practice, maybe more German than Scottish, of naming children after one's siblings. So there might have been two William McClains, cousins, marrying the two Moorhead girls.