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.