Two brothers marrying two sisters ?

[Nick29]

I suspect that my g. g. Grandfather and his brother married two sisters, in about 1831.  As of yet I don't know the sisters' maiden names, but hopefully that will change soon, when I get a copy of the birth certificate of one of the siblings born in 1844.  Are there any other tricks or tips to find the marriages ?  I think it may have been a double wedding.  The brothers came from Eltham Kent, and I think the sisters came from Chipping, Nr Buntingford, Herts.

[irret]

Can we have the brothers names and birth dates please. :)and the girls christian names if you know them?

[Nick29]

Certainly.......

William Martin (my g.g. grandfather, b. abt 1811) married to Mary

Thomas Martin (b. abt 1805), married to Amy

Sorry, I don't know the exact birth dates.

[sueky71]

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

[BassinghamTerrier]

I have a similar occurrence.

• 1895 29th June, Albert Mennell married Eliza Sutton, in Scarborough, volume 9d page 61
• 1897 March quarter, Frederick William Mennell married Sarah Ann Sutton in Scarborough, volume 9d page 525

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I know that the girls were sisters as they are in my family, and the men(nells!) were brothers too as they are in someone else's tree!

[kerryb]

I have a family with 4 daughters called the Simmons.

2 married 2 Pilbeam brothers, 1 married their first cousin and the other one married a second cousin.

I put it down the fact they all came from farming families in the same area, possible were all dissenters and socialised with each other.  This was in Sussex in the 1850s.

Kerry

[sueky71]

mmmm, looking at the dates involved (mine also were in mid 1800's) i think it says alot about family life at the time.

[BassinghamTerrier]

"... 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)

[Dave Francis]

I have three brothers (Kearsey) marrying three sisters (Tookey) in the 1870s in Thundersley, Essex. Census returns show the two families living cheek-by-jowl for quite some time. The brothers decamped to Cliffe in Kent with their wives around ten years later. The Kearsey/Tookey connection makes it quite easy for me to spot distant cousins.