A MAN HIS OWN GRANDFATHER.

Kumara Times, Issue 3058, 21 August 1886, Page 3

A MAN HIS OWN GRANDFATHER.

The following remarkable coincidence will be read with interest:—Some time since it was announced that a man up Taranaki way committed suicide for the strange reason that he had discovered that he was his own grandfather, leaving a dying statement explaining the singular circumstances. We will not attempt to unravel it, but give his own explanation of the condition of his kinsfolk in his own words. He says:—"l married a widow who had a grown-up daughter. My father visited our house very often, fell in love with my step-daughter, and married her; so my father became my son-in-law, and my step-daughter my mother because she was my father's wife. Some time afterwards my wife gave birth to a son He was my father's brother-in-law and my uncle, for he was the brother of my step-mother. My father's wife, i.e., my stepdaughter, also had a son. He was "f coarse my brother, and in the meantime my grandchild, for he was the son of my daughter. My wife was my grandmother, because she was my mother's mother; I was my wife's husband and grandchild at the same time; and as the husband of a person's grandmother is his grandfather, I was my own grandfather." After this logical conclusion, we are not surprised ihat the unfortunate man should have taken refuge in oblivion. It was the most married family and worst mixed that we ever heard of.