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That must make for interesting conversation over the dinner table Glen.
My 4g grandfather/mother and my 5g grandfather/mother are same people, my 3g grandfather married his niece. A generation or so later, and not my direct line, also had a similar marriage.
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It was a bit wierd that's for sure, she contacted me through a long forgotten trying to find post, we worked out that we were half sibs and that we probably passed each other in the street as we lived in the same area and were similiar ages. Then she sent a few pics asking if I recognised her......as I looked at them she looked familiar but were when she was still at school, then one of them was a pic of the two of us together, no point trying to hide who I was but it was a bit of a shock for the pair of us.
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My trees has been pruned a bit too - My 6xg grandparents are also my 5xg grandparents. Thier oldest daughter married one man and the youngest daughter (18yrs younger) married another. One great-great grandchild married a one great-grandchild. Second cousins once removed, but born within a month of each other ! Wow, Glen - that's a bit scary, but also a bit of a shock to both of you. Di |
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Even if all the premises were solid, I do find the 25 year generation decidedly suspect. The actual nobility and royalty may well have been taking teenage brides, but ordinary people wouldn't be marrying until they could afford to. With one of my ancestors having children in his seventies, that really skews the figures.
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It's a bit like that "average life expectancy" thing that made 40 the age at which you died, pre NHS. It was probably the biggest surprise overall in my research to discover that many/most of my rural ancestors lived well into their 70s,80s and 90s. If they survived childbirth and accidents, they mostly lived as long as we do today. OC |
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I always liked the "facts" that average life expectancy in Roman times was 24, while average age at marriage was 28. Which of course could both be true.
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Grossly simplifying the numbers.......If half the population died at birth and the other half lived to be 48 then the average age at death would be 24. But if all those who lived until 48 married at 28 then the average age of marriage would be 28. *runs out quickly*
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Yes, that's what Phoenix said......both statements can be statistically true. OC |
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lol That's funny I read n't in the middle of her last sentence!! I even thought "I'm surprised Phoenix made that mistake" when it was me all the time!!!
*slopes away again*
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To illustrate OC's point, there's a certain fairly well known individual who lived a century or so after Richard III and has no living descendants. He had three children and four grandchildren, but only one of the grandchildren lived long enough to marry, and she bore no children so his bloodline ended with her death, only 54 years after his own. |
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