A POSSIBILITY— BUT IMPROBABLE.
An ingenious calculator of the possibilities of consanguinnity has discovered that it is quite practicable after all for a man to be his own grandfather. He argues thus — a woman at 20 marries, at 21 has a son, and at 30 is left a widow. At 48 she marries again, her son being then 27, and having m the meantime married and had a son, the latter three years old at the time of his grandmother's second marriage. At 58 the woman dies, her second son being 37, her grandson 13, and her husband 60 years of age. At 66 the husband marries again, a girl of 18, making her the step-mother of his first wife's grandson, by this time 19 years old. At 72 he dies, and his second wife, by this time 24 years of age, seeks consolation m the arms of her Btep-grandson of 27, who thus, having become the husband of his grandmother, must necessarily be his own grandfather.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume 6, Issue 604, 20 January 1879, Page 2
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167A POSSIBILITY—BUT IMPROBABLE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume 6, Issue 604, 20 January 1879, Page 2
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