FAMILY PUZZLE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 461, 20 February 1933, Page 2

FAMILY PUZZLE

REMARKABLE SERIES UNUSUAL RELATIONSHIPS ; PRODUCED BY INTERMA&RIAGE. ' 4 " * - *' v ■ •' CASES IN AUTSRALIA. An extraordinary series of family relationships has " been described 'to the Sunday Sun by Mrs. Eileen Boland, of Enfield, who asks: "Can you beat this ?" ; ' • ' 1. "Three of my mother's aunts married three brothers," living in tKe Goulburn distriet, and three of my father's aunts married three brothers, also of the Goulburn distriet. _ 2. " My mother's elde'st' sister married her own cousin, and' their eldest daughter married my father's youngest brother. 3. "My mother's brother married my father's sister, theref ore brother and sister married sister and brother. 4. "My parents were already related over 40 years ago through cous'ins of my father's^ jand mother's marrying."

Both Same Name. Petails and some of the unusual relationships produced between members of the family by intermarriage are given by Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Boland, of 234, Liverpool Road, Enfield. Mrs. Boland (nee Roberts) had three aunts, the Misses H. J. and L. Roberts, who married respectively Messrs. W. J. and J. Frost. Three of her husband's aunts (Misses Boland) married three brotheres Taylor. The Frosts and Taylors are well known in the Goulburn distriet. ' When Mrs. 0. E.' Boland's sister (Miss A. J. Roberts) married, she did . not ehange her surname, for her hu'sbdnd, already her cousin, was' Mr. A. A:. Roberts, of Eastwood. Then th'e daughter of this couple (Miss A. A. Roberts) married Mr. W. L. Boland. They, too, live at Eastwood. Niece also Sister-in-Law. With this last marriage, Mrs. J. E. Boland's niece became also her sister-in-law, and Mr. J. E. Boland's sister-ih-law's child was also his sister-in-law. Mrs. W. L. Boland has three children. Mrs. J. E. Boland is their aunt and great-aunt, and Mr. J. E. Boland their uncle and great-uncle. Through this marriage Mrs. J. E. .Boland's cousin became also her brother-in-law. Many more paradoxes of relationship could be traced through this family. Mr. J. E. Boland, who is a butcher at Enfield, jokingly considers that he might copyright the details and offer it as an alternative to those who like their brains teased with crosswords and jigsaw puz'zles.