Ridiculous age gaps?

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My sister was born when I was 25. 9 years on she is now an aunt to my 2 children aged 5 and 4 months. She was also born an aunt to my step-brother's daughter who wil be 12 this year. Anyone have similar family set up?

< head explodes >

my family is totally boring and conventional

My mum was pregnant with me at the same time as my sister was pregnant with her first daughter, so now I have a niece who is 6 months older than me :) she used to shout "Aunty SWBL!" down the corridors in school to me to embarrass me bitch. Not quite the same, but people often find it odd all the same

My dh is older than his uncle.

His Mum had him when she was 18.

Her Mum (dh's Grandma) had her brother (dh's uncle) when she was 39. They were pregnant at the same time.

DS1 has a niece 2 weeks younger than him (DS2 is younger than her) from his half sister. I have a step mother 2 years older than my sister, my half sister is 22 years younger than me and my BIL is older than my mum

I'm younger than my DP's youngest (there are 4 of them) brother, and younger than his girlfriend.

That's all I have.

Age gaps can make a relationship :)

My father is older than my grandfather - my mother married a man older than her own father.

i have a half brother and sister who are younger than my own children. it is very weird.

My older son is over 20 years older than his younger brother and I am 17 years older than my younger brother

there is not enough space on mumsnet to explain my family

but we do have a 33 yr old granny, and lots of uncles/aunties younger than the nephews/nieces

My mum is 6 months older than her half-aunt - and they were best friends when they were little.

My great-gran was widowed at a young age and remarried. She had two more children and was pregnant at the same time as her 19 year old daughter (my gran).

As it happens my gran was a twin, but her twin died at birth so my great-gran adopted a baby boy whose mother died in hospital. So, my gran also has an adoptive brother who is a day or two younger than her.

On the other side of the family, my grandad was born conjoined and he and his brother were separated by the village GP. The twin didn't survive and my grandad wasn't told about him until he was in his 20s. Funny things happened during the war .

So yes, there are identical twins on both sides of the family

18-21 year gaps from oldest to youngest in my parents' families.

My dad is eldest and my mom is youngest...

My eldest aunt is 88 and my youngest uncle is 46 (less than 4 years older than me).

My mother's eldest sister is older than both my dad's parents.

So I never had doting grandparents: my dad's parents were too young and my mother's were too elderly.

I have first cousins born as early as 1949 and as late as 2000.

Identical twins run in my family,too, usually born to teenage moms.

what funny things happened during the war ghosteditor?

my dad aged 60, has a wife aged 32

they have 2 boys aged 5 & nearly 2.

I am 40 and have 3 siblings all over 30 years old.

my son is 7, my siblings have a child each, aged 7 &8.

My dads 2nd family boys are my sons uncles.

expain that to ds?????

I dont consider it rediculous though as we are all very very happy and get on wonderfully well, all the kids love each other like brothers

My uncle is only 4 years older than me. My nana has six children and my mum was the second eldest.

Not an age gap - but wierd family scenario:

My mum's elder brother was married to my dad's little sister (after my parents were married). They are now divorced, but it means my two cousins are cousins on both sids - very diffiuclt to draw on a family tree!

My mum is a twin, but there are 3 1/2 days between her and her sister. Apparently the Drs didn't know my Grandma was having twins, and only realised once Aunty came out that there was still some-one in there!

Three days later, Grandma went back into labour and had my mum.

Imagine doing labour twice in three days!!!

HMTheQueen that's awful!!

Have you seen the Guardian article here - they seem like a lovely family but I find it hard to get my head around the idea of identical twin boys who are four years different in age!

msboogie, sorry, I didn't punctuate that very well. I meant that my grandparents were all born during the war and that the idea of conjoined twins being separated at home by the GP was a bit frightening (especially since one of them didn't make it)! Also the random adoption of my great-uncle because my gran's twin didn't survive.

To top off the siamese twin thing, my grandad had four older siblings, none of whom knew that their little brother's twin existed until they were all adults. It was a mining family and they didn't talk about stuff like that.

To be fair - my grandparents lived in deepest darkest Australian bush and didn't see doctors very often! And it was my Grandma's first pregnancy so didn't realise that she was bigger than she should have been!

My DS is an uncle twice he is 9 and his nieces are 8 and 2.

I'm me own grandpa.

This thread has short-circuited my brain

My DP's Grandad re-married a younger woman and had two DC's now aged 8 and 10 - so my DP is 25 and they are his aunt and uncle, making them great-aunt and great-uncle to my DD aged 4 months and DP's two nephews aged 5 and 2 years.

Another complex family here. I am already a great aunt and I have great nephews and nieces who are older than my own two children.

My 3yo DS has three half-siblings: 35, 30 and 19. His nephews are 12 and 6 years old.