Hi Jared, Thank you very much for explaining this. However, one small correction; John was a grandchild and Mary was a great-grandchild of the 2 FROST brothers. :o) Would they be 2 1/2-cousins? :o) Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jared Handspicker" <jedh@jedh.com> To: "Betty" <bbffrrpp@comcast.net> Cc: <nova-scotia@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 9:05 AM Subject: Re: [NS-L] Half-Cousins, Step-Cousins, Etc. (CROSBY) > Betty, > > If I interpreted correctly, I would offer the following relationship for > these folks: > > "But, in the process, I was reminded of the family-tree of John CROSBY > (1797-1854) in Arlington, MA. His grandparents were Samuel FROST and > Abigail CUTTER, and Samuel's brother, Ephraim, married Abigail's sister, > Mary. So, the daughter of Samuel was the half-cousin? of Ephraim's > son, > Ephraim?" > > *** d/o Samuel was "double cousin" of s/o Ephraim. Cousin by an aunt on > her mother's side and an uncle on her father's side. > > "Going back to John, who was the grandson of Samuel FROST, he married Mary > BUCKNAM, who was the granddaughter of Ephraim, son of Ephraim FROST." > > So, how were John and Mary related? :o) > > *** Since Samuel and Ephraim were brothers (in same generation) and John > and Mary were grandchildren of the two brothers (also same generation), > they would be, by common set of GREAT-grandparents, 2nd cousins. If they > were children of the marriages previously mentioned, they would also be > double first cousins... or just "double cousins"... near as I can figure. > > Jared > >> Hello, >> >> I've been looking at my CROSBY ancestors this week, and I've discovered >> that >> my sister's research has a mistake in our family-line. But, it is a >> mistake made by other researchers in the past. * >> >> But, in the process, I was reminded of the family-tree of John CROSBY >> (1797-1854) in Arlington, MA. His grandparents were Samuel FROST and >> Abigail CUTTER, and Samuel's brother, Ephraim, married Abigail's sister, >> Mary. So, the daughter of Samuel was the half-cousin? of Ephraim's >> son, >> Ephraim? >> >> Going back to John, who was the grandson of Samuel FROST, he married Mary >> BUCKNAM, who was the granddaughter of Ephraim, son of Ephraim FROST. >> >> So, how were John and Mary related? :o) >> >> And, coming down to my generation, my grandfather had 3 wives. He >> only >> fathered children with his first wife. But, he had step-children with >> both his second wife and third wife. We had met our step-cousins with >> his 3rd wife when we were children. But, we never met the step-cousins >> from the second wife as she died when I was a toddler. >> >> But, because of my postings on the Lists and Boards, one of the >> grandchildren responded to me, and we have been corresponding since. >> And, >> they invited me out to Central Massachusetts to meet them 2 summers ago ! >> >> (The 2nd wife was Mrs. Hazel (SHAW) (McAVOUR) (BEDELL) LEWIS, and she had >> a >> McAVOUR son and four BEDELL children. If my brain is working this >> morning, the 4 BEDELL children were my father's step-siblings ! So, >> the >> children of the BEDELL step-daughters and step-son, were his step-nieces >> and >> step-nephew. (It was the BEDELL step-grandchildren of my grandfather >> whom I met.) So, how are we related? >> >> And, to add to the discussion, my father's KIDDER uncle married my >> mother's >> KERR sister. So, my mother's sister was - by marriage - her aunt ! >> And >> my father's uncle was - by marriage - also his brother-in-law ! And, >> thus, my father's male first-cousin was also - by marriage - his nephew ! >> So, Clinton is both my first-cousin and second-cousin ? >> :o) Did I figure that right? >> >> Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) >> >> * >> Researchers in "town histories" in MA have a Simon CROSBY, b1758, >> marrying >> Lydia H. FROST in 1787 and having only one son, John in 1797. And, >> having >> the same Simon CROSBY marrying a Sarah HOWE in 1789 and moving to NH and >> having at least 7 children. >> >> So, instead of my sister coming up with a family-line of CROSBY's going >> back >> to Simon in Billerica, MA, I now have to start from scratch trying to >> find >> out who the parents were of the Simon who married in Cambridge, MA >> (instead >> of the Simon marrying in Brookfield, MA.) >> >> >> >> New List created on Feb. 1: CAN-USA-MIGRATION >> >> For Genealogy researchers, please remember to check the archives of the >> Lists & Boards for both your surnames and place-names. >> >> >> ---------------------------------------- >> Basic List Commands: >> >> 1. To post to the list >> Send a message to: >> NOVA-SCOTIA-L@rootsweb.com >> >> 2. How to unsubscribe >> a. List mode: Send a message to NOVA-SCOTIA-L- >> request@rootsweb.com that contains only the word >> unsubscribe >> >> b. 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