Twins 1 day apart, one with baptism, one with birth cert?

oceanclub

I've never seen this before. There appears to be 2 twins, one day apart. However, there's only a baptism for one, and only a birth cert for the other:

https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Oliver-8359

https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Oliver-7875

I can't think why they wouldn't have both been baptised together. Or why there's no record for one!

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pinkypinky

I wouldn't be taking the word of a wikitree, even well sourced. Have you conducted your own search?

oceanclub

pinkypinky wrote: »

I wouldn't be taking the word of a wikitree, even well sourced. Have you conducted your own search?

Sorry yeah, those are my entries I should have mentioned, based on original records.

For example, any time I've encountered twins before, they are in the baptism records, one after the other. To have one baptised on its own is strange but perhaps one was too sick? No death record for Honoria though.

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blue banana

Possibly - Honora and Thomas are the same person. Priest made an error in the baptism record and entered Honora in error instead of Thomas?

Earnest

blue banana wrote: »

Possibly - Honora and Thomas are the same person. Priest made an error in the baptism record and entered Honora in error instead of Thomas?

I have a similar situation in my own family - too long ago for anyone to remember. The conclusion I came to was that the sex of the child was mistaken at birth, and the mistake realised by the time of baptism. Or possibly there was an element of intersex, and a choice had to be made. (It was also a change from female to male.)

montgo

The registrar may have been distracted when registering the birth. The informant was unable to write & possibly unable to read and could not check if the record was correctly written down.

Be well and win

is it possible one twin died/stillborn and the wrong twin's birth was registered