Years ago when I was researching my late husband's ancestors from Radstock, Somerset, England, I located a cousin who had worked on the family tree. There was a double cousin relationship between this English researcher and my husband where 2 BARTLETT sisters had married 2 YOUNG brothers in this small mining town in England. Joan In a message dated 7/9/2012 3:36:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, gale_gorman@me.com writes: 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