_A Proof that a Man can be his own Grandfather!_--I lately came across
the following curious piece of genealogical reasoning which I think
originally appeared in _Hood's Magazine_, and which I have endeavoured
to illustrate by the annexed table:
George==++
1 2 | ||
William=Anne=Henry ||
| | ||
| _David_ ||
| 1 2 ||
Thomas=Jane=====++
There was a widow (Anne) and her daughter-in-law (Jane), and a man
(George) and his son (Henry). The widow married the son, and the
daughter married the father. The widow was therefore mother (in-law) to
her husband's father, and consequently grandmother to her own husband
(Henry). By this husband she had a son (David), to whom she was
great-grandmother. Now, as the son of a great-grandmother must be either
a grandfather or great uncle, this boy (David) was one or the other. He
was his own grandfather! This was the case with a boy at school at
Norwich.