Does anyone know of sister-brother, aunt-nephew or mother-son couples who lived together, or who had children together, or who got married, and what their names were and where they're from?
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In 2000, a South African woman, Heibrecht Susanna Cornelia Fedder, or "Breggie" and her brother Robert Jan Fedder, aged 32 and 40, were arrested after an informer close to the family, who is believed to be a sister of the couple, claimed that the brother and sister had been sexually involved since 1984, and that the woman had fallen pregnant about ten times.
Based on evidence given to the police by the informer, it is believed that at least six other babies may be buried on two farms in the Delmas area, where the couple lived as husband and wife with their parents over the past 17 years. Heibrecht has two known sons by her brother, aged 14 and 7. The boys have been placed into a children's home in Kriel.
Their parents, Robert Thomas Hendry Fedder (65) and Elsina Hendrina Magdalena Fedder (60), were charged with aiding and abetting incest and fraud, having registered the children from their children's incestuous relationship as their own. Robert and Elsina Fedder are the parents of nine daughters and one son, Jan.
Prescott Evening Courier - Jun 3, 1927
Nephew and Aunt in Action for Divorce
PHOENIX, Ariz., June 3. - (AP)
A petition for the annulment of the marriage of Mrs. Mary Jane Smith and Bert K. Smith, her sister's son, was filed here yesterday with the clerk of the superior court. The woman, and her husband-nephew, who are under indictment by the county grandjury, on a charge of incest were married in Prescott December 23, 1926.
Mrs. Smith, who is at liberty on $2,000. bail and her husband still a prisoner, were arrested last week on bench warrants. They were arraigned yesterday before Superior Judge Phelps and entered pleas of not guilty to the charge. Their case was set for trial September 9.
THE PITTSBURGH PRESS
Published: May 15, 1914
AUNT-WIFE OF HASTINGS MAN HAS OWN OPINIONS
Comely Woman Seems Unwilling to Be Seperated from Nephew She Married.
Hasting, Pa., May 15 -
"say, do you think anybody would go to hell for loving anyone? I always believed that hell was intended for those who hated and despised and treated other persons mean. I suppose I am doomed because I always will love him. I cannot help it. I don't believe there is any hell anyway. Do you?"
Thus spoke comely Emma Sutton Phillips Carr, aged 42, whose home is in Akron, O., and whose marriage to her 27-year-old nephew, Will Carr, - her sister's son - of this place has created such a commotion in this vicinity since it was learned of recently. The pair was married in Detroit, Mich., last fall.
Carr is now suing for divorce in Detroit, believing that they did wrong in becoming man and wife, but the woman who held him in her arms when he was a babe and came to love him to distration in his manhood seems unwilling to be seperated from him.
The man's parents, who reside on a farm at this place are remorseful now because they gave their consent to the match originally.
The aunt-wife, who looks to be no more than 30, dresses modishly, is good looking and is an accomplished pianist, having graduated in music from the Boston Conservatory of Music. She says that she longs for children and has no fear that her blood relation to her husband would effect their physical development, as others have told her might be the case.
As a girl Emma sutton Phillips knitted a hood for Will Carr, then a baby.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: February 10, 1901
MARRIED HER NEPHEW; SEEKS DIVORCE
KANSAS CITY, Mo., FEBRUARY 9 - A petition for divorce filed this morning by Mrs. Helena B. Williams says forth that she and her husband, M.B. Williams, are aunt and nephew. For this reason she asks a divorce. M.B. Williams is a workman. He married his aunt in 1895 in Liverpool, England, knowing the relation that existed between them. Of late Mr. and Mrs. Williams have come to worry over the matter, and recently decided they should no longer live together. There is very little difference in their ages. There has never been any domestic difficulty between them, their married life having been peculiarly happy. They have never had any children.
