An amazing coincidence!

[SallyF]

Thanks, Sylviaann,  I might just do that sometime soon.  I think it may become one of those "Ooo, wouldn't it be great to know" items that niggle away at you.

If I ever do find out I'll let you know.

Sally

[little meg]

hi all,
I found a fourth cousin, once removed living next door to my son.
Trouble was; he was " the boy next door that played loud music." 
And they still provided me with their details, what nice people.
Margaret

[olinda]

A romantic (and spooky) story to add to your list. My mother was evacuated to Mountain Ash when our house in Cardiff was bombed during the war. We then moved back to Cardiff and 17 years later I met my future husband. When I was 24 we decided to marry and I dug out my birth certificate to facilitate the obtaining of a wedding certificate. My mother had attached to the certificate a paper cutting (from the South wales Echo) showing my birth and next to my birth announcement was my husbands - born in Cardiff the day after me.  I reckon we were fated to marry - and it has lasted 40 years so far !.

[Burrow Digger]

I have found ancestors in a census living in the same street.  Their descendants married about 50 years later.  Perhaps their grandparents knew one another.

Sylviaann

I have the exact same thing. Two Burrow families living next door to each other in the 1881 census and as far as I can tell totally unrelated to each other, despite having the same name. I just recently discovered that the daughter of one family got married and her husbands neice married the son of the other family.

I still think the two heads of family are related as well - just havent figured out how yet.  

BD

[CarolBurns]

A romantic (and spooky) story to add to your list. My mother was evacuated to Mountain Ash when our house in Cardiff was bombed during the war. We then moved back to Cardiff and 17 years later I met my future husband. When I was 24 we decided to marry and I dug out my birth certificate to facilitate the obtaining of a wedding certificate. My mother had attached to the certificate a paper cutting (from the South wales Echo) showing my birth and next to my birth announcement was my husbands - born in Cardiff the day after me.  I reckon we were fated to marry - and it has lasted 40 years so far !.

I would say that was definitely a bit spooky Olinda and congrats on the long marriage - and many more to come

Carol