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How were twins recorded

  • 07-08-2012 7:31pm
    #1
    binxeo
    Registered Users Posts: 243 ✭✭


    Just wondering back in the 1800's how twins would have been recorded. Or would it have been recorded at all?


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  • #2
    VicWynne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭VicWynne


    In the civil register (post 1864) the time of birth is recorded. It's not always apparent in church registers if one died soon after birth, but you should be able to notice two children, with the same parents, being baptised on the same day.

    Maybe somebody more knowledgable than me has a better answer, but that's how I'd check.


  • #3
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Vic's right - the civil register showed a time, so if you see one, you know to look at the record immediately before and after...the time was given to establish which child was the elder. The details of vol page number ( and year, quarter, registration district) should be matching.

    With the parish registers, it's not so clear unless the date of birth is also listed, because families, particularly CoI, often had several kids baptised together.

    I was just this morning looking at a family where there were 6 boys, that I know of, 2 were born 1929 and 2 were born 1935 but the references are not sequential. They're quite distant and haven't had the budget to get all the birth certs yet. It's not impossible that the family twice had 2 singleton kids in the same year but it does seem unlikely.

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  • #4
    Mollymoo19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69 ✭✭Mollymoo19


    binxeo wrote: »
    Just wondering back in the 1800's how twins would have been recorded. Or would it have been recorded at all?

    My G.G. Grandfather, born in 1823 was a twin and his baptism record contains a note to this effect; it shows as a note appended on the Rootsireland.ie record. I have also seen this type of note in the margin on the original records in irishgenealogy.ie. This may however be at the discretion of the recording priest.


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