Two brothers marrying two sisters ?

[Nick29]

My two brothers were bricklayers/labourers, so I guess they may have been working in the same area, and met the sisters there ?

[sueky71]

"... they all came from farming families in the same area, possible were all dissenters and socialised with each other."

And I bet they all wore denim boilersuits, needed a good dentist and played the banjo!

(No offence intended)

lol. one of my couples had a son called william robert - a true billy-bob

[kerryb]

"... they all came from farming families in the same area, possible were all dissenters and socialised with each other."

And I bet they all wore denim boilersuits, needed a good dentist and played the banjo!

(No offence intended)

LOL    I don't think it would have been the banjo in Sussex, either a squeeze box or organ in chapel!!!!! 

Kerry

[Taffy Lee]

My G. Grandfather and G. Grandmother were in this situation (i.e. his sister was married to her brother).

Therefore, my Grandmother and her cousin are actually 'double cousins'.  I suppose this is the closest relation you can be to someone without being a sibling (?)

Lee

[acceber]

I also have an occurence of this in my family where my 2 half great-aunts (Sellick) married 2 local brothers (Symes) in the same village.

acceber

[aghadowey]

My husband's grandmother and her sister married identical twin brothers and had 7 children between them. They lived next to each other and most people didn't know which children belonged to which set of parents as they all went to school together and ran around together.
My great-grandmother's brother married her husband's sister. Each family had 6 girls and 1 boy. For a while they lived in a 4 story house with grandparents on ground floor, the two families on the next two floors and another brother and family on the top floor. I have a fantastic photograph of the grandparent's 50th anniversary with the family together and I'm still not sure who everyone in it is because the children all looked so much alike.

[Sooziecats]

is this common?
it's happened (that i know of) once on my father's side and twice on my mother's side. also numerous marriages of cousins.
i don't think my ancestors got out much

We have three Bayliss brothers married three Creese sisters - at first I thought my Gramps had loads of half siblings till I worked it out!

Sooziecats

[lizdb]

see also
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,237098.msg1279803.html#msg1279803

[hiraeth]

In my tree I have three sisters who married a father and son - very confusing - it took me a while to figure it out since the men shared the same name!     

In 1864 the eldest sister aged 38 married a widower aged 41 with a son age 15.
In 1875 the middle sister aged 38 married the son - by then aged 26.
In 1877 the middle sister died at 40 - the son moved back home.
In 1889 the eldest sister was widowed.
In 1897 the youngest sister (by then age 57) married the son who was by then age 48 - something tells me he preferred older women!

So all three sisters married late and none of them had children.  Given the potential for confusion, it was probably just as well