2 Brothers to Marry 2 Sisters
By bunmi2501
@bunmi2501 (465)
Nigeria
2 responses
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
9 Mar 10
I have several people in my family tree where two brothers have married two sisters (from a different family, of course). In fact there is one case where two brothers married two sisters who were their first cousins (first cousin marriages are not uncommon in England, especially in the 19th Century when families tended to stay in the same area more often).
You have to remember that before about the middle of the 20th Century, it wasn't quite as easy as it is now for people, especially girls, to make friends with others outside their 'circle'. Introducing one's brother to the sister of the girl you intended to marry was quite a natural thing to do.
@bunmi2501 (465)
• Nigeria
9 Mar 10
Yea, thanks for the infro, I quit agree that this issue is relative, and it is perceived differently by different set of people and races and times
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
9 Mar 10
If you really did mean, effectively, "Can a man marry his own sister? No. Not in this country or in any country or culture that I know of.
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
9 Mar 10
Biologically, it ought to be acceptable for a man to marry his step-sister or even his half-sister (who, I think, would have the same amount of coparental genes as a first cousin) but I believe that neither of those are acceptable in this country.
