Today's family history mystery!

I felt like digging back into Ancestry now that the 1931 Canadian census is available online.

One thing I've learned to appreciate is the Residence attribute. I always assumed Mom's family more or less stayed in one place, but her father's side loved wandering.

I found assorted addresses through Henderson's Directories and obituaries and again, residence makes sense for Mom's mother's side of the family. For example, my great-uncle Fred worked for a brewing company and their home address wasn't too far away from Inglewood, where the former Molson brewing plant and Fleischman's yeast factory are located. Nowadays we're so used to travelling for work that living close to work is less obvious.

So, that's not the mysterious part--just the mildy interesting part.

My grandfather had nine siblings and to the best of my knowledge, two of those siblings are still alive.

Let's call the sister who passed away a couple of years ago G and the sister who's presumably still alive, A.

Weddings were big news back in the day and I found a story about A's marriage to R. I dutifully clipped it and saved it to her Ancestry record.

Then, I just happened to come across G's obituary which was very detailed in regards to names (jackpot!). But wait...her first husband was listed as...R!

R's name is also presumably uncommon enough for the time; it's not like he was Robert Smith.

Whaaaaaat? Two sisters, one man? What is going on? I'm not entirely sure, but I'm intrigued!