SCOTTISH GENEALOGY :
. . . And so ye see, auld Pittoddles, when his third wife dee'd, he got mairrit upon the laird o' Blaithershins' aughteenth dochter, that was sister to Jemima, that was mairrit till Tarn Flumexer, that was first and second cousin to the Pittoddleses, whase brither becam laird efterwards, an' mairrit Blaithershins' Baubie -- an' that way Jemima becam in a kind o' a way her ain niece an' her ain aunty, an', as we used to say, her guid-brither was mairrit to his ain grannie.
-- Book Of Scottish Anecdote : Hislop (quoted in The Scots Book, by Ronald Macdonald Douglas, published in 1995 by Senate / Tiger Books International plc, Twickenham, UK).
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