A PERPLEXING FAMILY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1745, 20 January 1888, Page 2

A PERPLEXING FAMILY

Mr L. Oflbornf, of this city, mirried its grandfather's second wife, und they, hive a Bon. Given thia sltapla -stated ooent, and a number of ppoullar family relationshipa may be dedncad. For exj; \mple, Me Osborne Is % grandchild of h\V> f wife. His son being a{so a' eon of hi^ (Osborne's) grandmother#? la to his; own father. Osboitfie becomes a brother to his uncles and aqnts,-. and also a stepfather t > them The boy, being the child of Oaborne as a -grandadn, is thereby, a great-grandson of his own mother, while bis father may rejoice m the title of greatgrandfather to his own ohildr Thus the boy beoomes a grandanole to bimaelf and his parents* great-grandohlld. Osborne is the boy 'o father and great-Rrflndfather at the same time, and being the husband of his own grandmother enjoys the dlsjtinotion of being his own grandfather as jwell. Oaborne'a mother married a mao in.tmed Blake, and his sister married a brother-in-law of her own mother, Henry j Blake. Oaborne's sister beoomes a sister to her own mother. Mrs Blake, being jOhorne'i! mother, Is grandmother to 'Oaborne'i ion. The l»tter, however^ being a son of the wife of Mrs Blake's father-in-law, la therefore a brother to hit grandmother, and grandanole to bis grandmother's sister, the daughter who married Mr> Blake's brother-in-law. He also is her nephew, as the son of her brother. Osborne Is the younger Mrs Blake's grandfather as well as her brother Thus her nephew, Osborne's son, beocmei nncla to his aunt, being a son of her grandmother. Thlj .series of relationships may be likewise traced almost iniefinltely. The family are happy and contenteJj and live as pleasantly as though ih'ee peculiar family tie* Wtre.not present.— Madison ( Wis.) Journal.