who would be my mother's sister's husband's sister's son
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Can I marry my mother's sister's husband's brother's son?
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Can I marry my mother's sister's husband's brother's son?
I think this is a case for using a diagram; in fact, several. In each one, I will use the following designations:
You - gender unknown (sorry, I don’t know who you are)
Your mother
Your mother’s sister
Your mother’s sister’s husband
Your mother’s sister’s husband’s brother
Your mother’s sister’s husband’s brother’s son
Siblings will be joined by a dark green line
Marriages will be shown by a double line
Offspring will be connected to their parents by an orange line
Here’s the first (remote) possibility:
In this case, your father and his brother married a pair of sisters.
Now if you are male, it is even possible that 1 and 6 represent the same person! There is no way that you can marry yourself.
What happens if 6 is one of your siblings? Well, I doubt that any jurisdiction in the world would sanction such a marriage if they knew. But what if they didn’t know? Its been a staple of soaps for years that two children raised separately end up together without knowing they were siblings. In such a case, it is possible that they could get married - indeed, I believe that such cases have actually occurred.
In this example, your father and your intended partner’s mother are siblings.
Under the Inuit (aka linear) kinship system (as used in most of Europe, much of the Americas, by the Inuit themselves and some other groups), this means that you and your partner would be cousins. Some societies and some jurisdictions may not permit marriage between first cousins; others, are OK.
You may be wondering why I mentioned both societies and jurisdictions. Well, its possible that, you and your partner live in a country whose laws permit first cousin marriages; however, you and your intended, belong to an ethnic minority that frowns on this. If you want to remain part of your group, the marriage wouldn’t be allowed; but if you cut your ties with the community ….
However, if your group allowed such marriages and the country you live in doesn’t, that could cause more serious problems. There may be a special dispensation for your group, but don’t count on it. An alternative might be to marry in another country then move back.
Actually, this opens up an interesting situation. According to wikipedia, the US states are split approximately 50/50 on whether first cousins can marry. What happens if you marry in one state and cross the border to live in another? I have heard that (as part of national law?) if you legally marry in one state, every other state has to recognise the marriage as legal despite their own laws! How true this is, I don’t know; I’m certainly not a legal expert, not even an informed layperson, in regard to UK law, let alone the US!
In this example your four grandparent are completely different to your intended’s grandparents. However, one of your grandparents is a sibling to one of your intended’s grand parents.
In the terminology that we use in the UK, this makes you and your intended second cousins, and marriage is allowed.
Again, I advise that some societies have different kinship patterns. If you want more info, I suggest that your first point of call is the wikipedia article on kinship.
So, to know what situation would actually apply, you need to add more detail to the family tree and consider local laws and customs.
and look at the pic..
