Publications
How About Four and a Half, by Rod Burrell, published September 2012 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 20 no. 3, article, pp.131-133) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508852] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:In the March 2012 issue of the Sussex Family Historian, Susan Martin told a great story of three brothers marrying three sisters. She issued a challenge "Who Can Beat Three?" I accept the challenge. The events recorded happened in New South Wales, Australia.
In the 1880s three sons and a daughter of George and Eliza IRELAND married three daughters and a son of Sam and Jane CLUGSTON. A few years later a granddaughter of Eliza IRELAND married another son of Sam and Jane CLUGSTON. While this last marriage brought the family inter-marriages to five perhaps it should only rank as a half. The bride, although raised as an IRELAND in the IRELAND family, was not a sister of the four IRELAND siblings; she was their niece.
In the 1880s three sons and a daughter of George and Eliza IRELAND married three daughters and a son of Sam and Jane CLUGSTON. A few years later a granddaughter of Eliza IRELAND married another son of Sam and Jane CLUGSTON. While this last marriage brought the family inter-marriages to five perhaps it should only rank as a half. The bride, although raised as an IRELAND in the IRELAND family, was not a sister of the four IRELAND siblings; she was their niece.