My grandfather's uncle married my grandfather's sister - caused a bit of a ruction in the family!! So it does happen. Mary -------------------------------------------------- From: "Migs Eder" <migseder@clear.net.nz> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 12:52 PM To: <new-zealand@rootsweb.com> Subject: [nz] marrying a niece > More information please Rowan. > > wife One and her brother are full siblings, etc? > > In theory someone can't marry a person who has been their niece. Did > they marry away from home and lie? Lots more we need to know, > including, what year, what place > > migs > >> From: Rowan Gibbs <Rowan.Gibbs@paradise.net.nz> >> >> a man married twice and his second wife was the daughter of the son >> of his >> first wife?s father >> >> would she be described as his niece by marriage -- or as what? >> >> > > A nation is an association of reasonable beings united in the > peaceful sharing of the things they cherish; therefore to determine > the quality of a nation, you must consider what those things are." - > St Augustine, in The City of God XIX, 24. > > > > > > > The List Guidelines > > http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Folks, Having grown up in NZ and now following back through a few generations of family history around the Otago/Southland regions it seems there was quite a dearth of available womenfolk of marriage-able age and/or status! One wonders how close some families actually were in those days! Given that a man could lose his wife during childbirth and be stuck out in the sticks far from a social scene where he might find a replacement wife to help raise his children. My mother worked for a time in Nelson when my sister and I were in primary school after our move back to NZ from Tasmania in the mid 1950s. Mum came home with some rather 'hairy' stories about a young lass working with her whose children were known in the community as her siblings but in actual fact had been fathered by her own father along with the children her mother produced. How the quality of living has improved since that era!!!!! (but that no doubt opens up another can of worms!) Cheers Ainslie.