Paths crossing

Hermy

I wonder does anyone have instances of people from one branch of their tree encountering people from another branch other than through marriage.

I recently stumbled upon the fact that two brothers lodging at my maternal grandmothers twin sisters mother-in-laws house were my maternal grandmothers maternal grandfathers nephews sister-in-laws step children from her husbands first marriage.
I do wonder if the two lads knew of the very distant relationship.

In another instance I have people of the same relatively unusual surname as my mothers paternal line who moved into the same neighbourhood as my mothers grandparents and then ended up moving to where my Dads grandparents lived but in this instance I can't yet prove if there is a relationship.

pedroeibar1

Hermy wrote: »

I wonder does anyone have instances of people from one branch of their tree encountering people from another branch......... two brothers lodging at my maternal grandmothers twin sisters mother-in-laws house were my maternal grandmothers maternal grandfathers nephews sister-in-laws step children from her husbands first marriage.

I'll revert when I've that figured out:).
Seriously, though, I've mentioned before that I've relatives/ancestors who at the time they met were unconnected, but through my maternal line and that of my wife's ancestry are linked. They met on a railway project in Australia in the late 1800's.

Hermy

If you say it a few times quickly it doesn't hurt as much.:p

KildareFan

I have come across two cases of first cousins marrying - took me a while in both cases to confirm they were first cousins.

Hermy

Yes I have one or two instances of marriages between cousins but I'm wondering about the non-marriage situations - where people know each other socially or through their jobs or their addresses and their very distant family connections might be something that only those who are compiling their family trees years later might know about.

pinkypinky

Not in my family, but one I researched: two siblings, main line descends from the brother. 7 generations later, main line marries descendant of the sister, so both brother and sister become direct ancestors of the same people.

shanew

I've two separate lines opposite each other in Bray in the 1850s, one living in the town the other just outside and a car-man/contractor with a business premises in the town close to the firsts residence. The two lines did not link up until over 100 years later with the marriage of my parents.

Alan259

Since all my ancestors were born within a couple of miles from where I am now, a lot of them would have been neighbours to each other as well as having registered their births, marriages and deaths in the same registrar's district. Now, when I find a registration for a relative I read through the rest of the entries on the page as more often than not there will be another relative's registration on it.

My great great grandmother's death registration had me confused as I had her year of death from the parish's burial register but couldn't find it in the indexes and when I was researching another death, I found hers. It turns out that the indexer mistranscribed the surname 'King' as 'Ring'.

The marriage of a great grand aunt had eluded me as it was registered in Irish and I found it while searching for another couple. For some reason, Irishgenealogy.ie had the English version of the groom's name marrying the Irish version of the bride's name while Familysearch.org had both the groom's and the bride's Irish versions and just the English version of the groom's name on their database. Familysearch also misspelled the Irish version of the bride's name.