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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Duck on Wednesday 27 March 24 21:19 GMT (UK)
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Just having a senior moment, my sisters daughter is my niece making me her uncle, now with her child, does that make me a great uncle or a granduncle, same with her child, does that make me a great great uncle or a great granduncle
Regards
Simon
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You are a Great uncle to your nieces child
If her child marries & has a child - you are it’s Gt Gt uncle
Use the same formula as for grandparents/great grandparents etc
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Thank you Carole
If it is the same formula as for grandparents/great grandparents, would that not make you a granduncle/great granduncle
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I think it depends on the custom of the country! ;D
Great in some Grand in others.
I had never heard the expression Grand Uncle before joining RC. ;)
Wiggy
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I’ve never heard it all. Only ever Great uncle or Great aunt
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There was a thread on this a few years ago:
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=841611.0
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Great uncle, your nieces child, and great great uncle for your nieces grandchild.
If you had lived 300 years ago and left a will you would likely have said "cosen". Such as "To my cosen Elizabeth Smith ten pounds, and my cosen Hannah Bloggs ten pounds, and I give to the poor of the parish fifty pounds".
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Great uncle, your nieces child, and great great uncle for your nieces grandchild.
If you had lived 300 years ago and left a will you would likely have said "cosen". Such as "To my cosen Elizabeth Smith ten pounds, and my cosen Hannah Bloggs ten pounds, and I give to the poor of the parish fifty pounds".
Or just kinsman / kinswoman - leaving us all guessing ;D
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I think you will find the Americans say grand uncle whereas we say great uncle. So it depends which country you are referring to.
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“Grand” is an Americanism.
We see it on Ancestry
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“Grand” is an Americanism.
Not in my experience. I have never heard it used, certainly not in my family.
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When my nephews and nieces started having children I chose to be referred to as Grand Aunty and have used that for almost thirty years.
The grand-child of my eldest niece is my great-grand-niece, so I'm known as great-grand-aunty to her.
My logic is that I have grand-parents and great-grand-parents, I don't have great-parents and great-great-parents so using grand makes sense to me - and I rather like being called a grand aunty :-)