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What is the relationship?

  • 07-11-2020 9:40am
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    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,088 CMod ✭✭✭✭


    Would appreciate guidance as to what the relationship is between the groom Peter Curran and the bride Maria Hughes in this 1857 marriage.

    Is it 3rd and 3rd degree of consanguinity? What common ancestor would they have shared?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭Waitsian


    1st degree is parent/child, 2nd degree between siblings, 3rd uncle/aunt and niece/nephew and 4th degree between first cousins.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,088 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    The bride's mother was an Ann Curran, so Peter was Maria's uncle?
    Every second family in that parish is a Curran or a Hughes, so they are all tangled up.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,609 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    3 & 3 is second cousins, think of it as an up and down. 3 people up from person A is their great-grandparents, 3 people down from them is a second cousin.

    Good explainer here:
    https://www.facebook.com/notes/jennifer-doherty/consanguinati-and-marrying-your-cousin/10154006023646206/

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭Earnest


    So you could potentially have 3 & 4, second cousins once removed?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,609 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Of course.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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