Same thing happened in my ancestry so it was not uncommon for two sisters from one family to marry two brother from another. As our ancestors staked a claim to property in the 1800s there just wasn't much of a pool to choose from. My paternal grandmother was a Mainer but her mother was a McClelland. Two different Mainer boys married two McClelland girls. Meanwhile on the Gorman side my 2nd great grandfather died at 47 and his widow married a neighbor. They both had quite a bit of property so this may have been a merger of sorts. They went on to have more children before my 2nd great grandmother died. Then the 2nd husband married his dead wife's niece. Gale Gorman Houston On Jul 9, 2012, at 10:50 AM, Barbraseb@wmconnect.com wrote: Don't think it's that unusual. My brother and sister married a brother and sister. To complicate things further for future researchers, both girls were named Virginia, and both first sons were named for their fathers!