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As an aside, I like to think, with little justification, that they fled Denmark and my (?) whatever he was, married his sister as a protective act. She is then traceable but he disappears from the record.
Phil

As far as I know: Both were Danish, "married" in Southampton, 1885. Both were born before their mother remarried, so the tentative assumption is that they share the father. She used the same surname as her brother on earlier Danish records. I say father unknown because I have no way of knowing wheth...

My great grandmother married her own brother! I am aware that this was an invalid marriage, but my grandfather's birth certificate has them as parents. (True father unknown.) She used her step-father as father on the marriage certificate. As a newbie I am somewhat confused as to how to present this ...