Re: [Gramps-users] Re : Is there a particular reason why "Divorce" isn't included as a relationship type?

[Dave G. <da...@gi...>]

Martin,

I have a couple similar situations in my tree. Daughter gets pregnant 
super young under then scandalous circumstances and the baby is now her 
"brother" or "sister" and grandma is listed as the mother.

Dave

On 2/24/2017 9:07 AM, Martnal wrote:
> This is all very true. It's getting a bit off topic but I shall briefly
> summarise part of my story. My father was born in 1928. His father died of
> natural causes in 1942 and his mother died 25 years later. We had many
> holidays with my father's sister, who then died in 1973.
>
> Many years later when my father applied for a 10-year passport to visit the
> United States he had great trouble obtaining a birth certificate, applying
> in the name he had used for 55 years. To cut a long story short it turns out
> that the lady that we had many holidays with, who we ALL thought of as his
> sister, was actually his mother. The people who I thought of as my
> grandparents (the ones who died in 1942 and 1967) were actually my great
> grandparents. It seems that my father's mother got pregnant quickly, got
> married quickly, gave birth quickly, and quickly split up, leaving HER
> mother holding the baby.
>
> Obviously it was a secret that his father's mother and grandmother both
> thought they were taking today graves. The Internet and UK Birth Records
> knew otherwise.
>
> Martin
>
>
>
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> Martin, SW London
>
> I am using GRAMPS 4.2.3-1 on Windows 10.
>
> I am researching surnames Loughborough, (London and Hartlepool), Watson, (Jarrow and Hartlepool), Ballard and Glassop (E. London), Mowbray, Pounder and Bulmer, (all Hartlepool), Leggett (Middlesborough and Prescot).
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