What Relation?

[LadyCG]

MasterMG went to his great grandparents today. My husband's first cousin was there with her granddaughter who is about 6 months older that MMG and they met for the first time and played beautifully together, so I've just been told.

What relation are the children? I could probably work it out but my brain hurts right now, along with most of my internal viscera.

[ubasses]

second cousins once removed,

[calmck]

2nd cousin or 2nd cousin once removed??

[LadyCG]

Thank you for your answers.

The great grandparents have 3 children, 7 grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren and even great, great grandchildren. Confused.com.

[237SJ]

Here's a handy chart https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/what-is-a-second-cousin

[Tilly2]

I'd just go with 'a relative'. :-)

[LadyCG]

Thank you, 237.

Tilly, that would hurt my head a lot less.

[Bobbisox1]

Those children are very lucky to have great grandparents , I am now a Great grandparent myself and I find that to be an honour as I never knew my own grandparents although I vaguely recall going on a train to a place called Doncaster :0) and being put to bed up some spiral stairs and cryingj

[LadyCG]

The little girl he was playing with, although older than MMG, was a generation below him.

MMG is their great grandson and the little girl is their great great granddaughter.

I remember my nan's father and my granddad's mother. They died in 1983 and 1982 respectively.

[Bobbisox1]

My father was in the RAF and served in Egypt during the War, my Mum and he had 3 children then , then after the war I came along in 1946, I have the most beautiful sister who was 90 last June and is as bright as a button,sadly the other two have died, my sister lived in NZ and died with dementia, my brother was serving in the army when I came along :0)

[Peter Pedant]

sort of around 50 y ago
80% of the English knew the names of their grandparents and only 20% knew the names of their gt grandparents

my father was not sure of his grandfathers name and that made genealogy fun

[Xeronema]

Bobbi, a place called Doncaster. I know Doncaster very well, especially Doncaster Royal Infirmary - it is one of the best hospitals I have ever been admitted to. My step-father received end of life care there. You mentioning Doncaster, it brought back memories.

[Bobbisox1]

I know of it now Xeronema but as a very small child, it was somewhere a long way away