RELATIONSHIPS.
Queries concerning peculiar relationehips aot infrequently come to hand from readers, arid a few, involving both blood and marriage connections, are submitted for investigation by, and not for the bewilderment of the reader. (1) Is it possible in the case of. two men Jtor each to be at the same time uncle and nephew of the other? (2) A gentleman who had no brothers or sisters met another in the street who claimed relationship, saying that the mother of the former was the claimant's mother's jnother-in-law. How-were the two related? (3) Tom-and Sawyer were.coueins, the former having an uncle in blood X-who had a full sister Y. Sawyer could not claim X as a relative, nether could Tom make any legal claim to V being his aunt. How was it? (4) Was it possible in New Zealand before the war for a man to have married
his widow's sister, "widow" meaning a woman bereft of her husband by death? -. '
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1927, Page 28
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