A CURIOUS COMPLICATION.
A lawsuit between a woman in Windsor, Ontario, against her half-brothers, for her share of her mother's estate, has revealed a curious complication. A man named James Dunn, jun., died and his widow who had some children, was married to the father of the deceased husband, James Dunn, sen., and further children were born. The Courts and community are all tied up in knots figuring out the relationship of the various members of the family are to each other. The old gentleman became the brother-in-law of his sons and grandfather to his own children. His children by his second wife are their own uncles, and brothers-in-law to their mother. #The relationship growing bewildering when it is found that the second Mrs Dunn is her children’s aunt, mother, and grandmother, and her own mother-in-law.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 9 October 1901, Page 4
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136A CURIOUS COMPLICATION. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 9 October 1901, Page 4
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