Is there any relation between you and your father's half-brother's son?

Question

I was looking at my family tree and several generations back my 7th great grandfather is listed twice but with two different women. I'm assuming he remarried or something but he had two sons, each with a different mother. The two sons then married and each had a child, a boy and a girl. The boy and the girl then got married and had a son. Is there any relation that would deem it inscestual?

I would like to clarify that I am not talking about myself, some seemed to have confused what i said. This occurred several generations back. His name was a fairly unique German name after incorporating his middle name. Both names are an exact match so I am pretty sure it is the same man. I'm not in a panic about it because I realize that this was pretty common back then, this question was merely asked to fiqure out the relationship between them.

Answer 1

The boy and girl would be half first cousins. However, even if they had been full half cousins, this would not have been considered incest back in that time.
Marriage between cousins was considered a good match back then...for example in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Darcy was expected by his aunt to marry her daughter.

Answer 2

cmclarkie...

Most people if they search long enough will find where this happens in their family.

When I found it in my own family I about fell off the chair I was sitting on.

Then I had it explained to me. Decades and centuries ago people rarely traveled outside of their own little circles. Some never even left the counties that they lived in. So meeting "outsiders" wasn't easy to do when most of the people in a isolated area was a cousin to one degree or another. Things happen and relationships bloom. I wouldn't look down on this happening in the past if I were you.

Now... if it is a brother and sister or a mother and son then there is an issue. :)

I've got at least two unions like this in my family that I know of. No big deal....

Have a nice day...

Answer 3

yes, they were cousins.

you said your great grand father had two sons. they were brothers, half-brothers. they each had a kid, a boy and a girl. that makes them the niece and nephew of the half-brothers, or the half-niece and half-nephew of each brother respectively. That also makes the boy and girl half-cousins. There is definitely a branch with two trunks on that family tree. Luckily, the brothers were only half-blood brothers, and then they married, making their children only one-sixteenth-blood relatives, or something like that...

as far as incest goes, it has always existed, but really wasn't much of a problem for much of the human race for much of history. it's more of a socio-cultural concern. the main issue is that interbreeding can lead to many negative side effects for the children, both physical and emotional...but assuming you're well, I would say the most harm done is a twinge of embarrassment at the notion of incest in your family... if that.

Answer 4

i don't have the kind of relationship yet I certainly have 2 acquaintances whose fathers had sexual intercourse with them from an exceedingly youthful age. regrettably, it does exist in this international and the subject concerns those females have mentally and in life now, i've got faith, promptly come from being sexually abused as little ones with the help of the human beings who're think to maintain them risk-free. in case you or somebody you already know is being abused in this way with the help of a parent or every person else, tell somebody, or motivate the guy to speak up and positioned a end to it. basically then are you able to/them start to heal.

Answer 5

While none are in my direct line, I have found a few wreaths in the family tree.

I halfway joke that the reason my Civil War ancestor left the state of his birth for another was so that his kids would have someone to marry that they weren't already related to.

Answer 6

the people in question would be cousins. incest is a social rather than a biological fact, and is arguably related to the size of a social group. today, in 'western' society, marriage with a cousin is on the borderline of 'incest', possibly because of the size of our extended social networks. i would say that people living that many generations ago would have had a limited social network and it was probably perfectly normal to marry a cousin.

Answer 7

you might find christian name where all same ie;mary john elizabeth cathrine paul george ect A lot of people where named after family member s dont panic just yet keep researching the answers are always there

Answer 8

Your father's half-brother's son is your half cousin. Half cousins are related 1/16th by blood.

Answer 9

you are half 1st cousins

Answer 10

he's your half cousin