From: chris@dickinson.uk.net   
      
   On Monday, 14 May 2018 23:10:05 UTC+1, Ian Goddard  wrote:   
   > On 14/05/18 18:05, Chris Dickinson wrote:   
   > >    
   > > There must be plenty of 'three brothers' stories that are true. Perhaps a   
   three brother relationship works particularly well in family dynamics? I have   
   two brothers, but there is a 10-year range - I could see that were the range   
   to be more like 6    
   years, especially in a hamlet context, the bond could be significant.   
   > >    
   >    
   > It might be a statistical thing.  Perhaps in the relevant time period    
   > the number of surviving male children peaks around 3.  So if the    
   > /father/ moves and takes the children with him then you get a lot of 3    
   > brother settlement stories with the father discountered.   
   >    
   > To counter this statistic /two/ of my ggfather's brothers emigrated to    
   > Sydney although not on the same boat - they arrived about a month apart.    
   >   Another brother also emigrated but to Chicago some years later.  A    
   > fourth one simply disappears from the census after 1851; I've no idea    
   > what happened to him.   
   >    
   > Ian   
      
   Might make a good study for a thesis.   
      
   Going back to the cultural aspect, the Brothes Grimm published a story 'The   
   Three Brothers' (where thay all did very well), so that might have become part   
   of popular consciousness.   
      
   Chris   
      
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