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Its really weird I always thought the chances of twins being born in a family was a totally random occurrence. ???
However I have only come across two sets of twins in my entire family tree these being been in the same family.
My point is that it is obviously not a random thing but a thing inherited via your genes (not levi 501's).
Do you have twins in your family?
My twins run in the PIPER family.
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Yep
Every second generation in the STRICKLAND line there have been twins... and in one instance to date...... quads.. ( luckily it was my cousin... she had both twins and quads and yes they were natural, there was no medical intervention at all ). ;D ;D ;D
Karenlee
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Umm I though I had better add a little body to this thread and put who my ancestor twins are who knows I may make contact with a new member.
James & John PIPER. b 3rd November 1839,
Charles & Francis PIPER b.23rd September 1855, Beyton,Suffolk.
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Yes sure do.
Twins apparently run on my fathers side of the family. My father was a twin, his fathers fathers brother has heaps of twins as well. I have lost count of how many. Now on my fathers mothers paternal side... their are also twins.
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Did you know that in the UK one out of every 80 births are twins. :-\
How the hell do explain this one? :o
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-377839/Black-white-twins.html
Now I am more confused after reading this: http://multiples.about.com/od/pregnancy/a/familytwin_2.htm
No one is quite sure why, but the Yoruba tribe in West Africa has the highest rate of twinning in the world. A study concluded that the mother's diet was the cause, being high in cassava, a type of yam or sweet potato. The peelings of this vegetable are thought to contain a chemical that causes hyperovulation. In addition, a 2006 study found that women who consume dairy are five times as likely to have twins.
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Yep, we've got twins in the tree...
In 1778 (my 6xG granparents had boy/girl), 1810 (my 5xG grandparents had boy/girl) and most recently 1841 (my 4xG grandparents had boy/boy).
In 1713 (OH's 7xG grandparents had boy/girl) and 1951 OH's Grandparents had (boy/boy only 1 surviving).
Neither of us are descended from any of the twins and all of these twins occur in different lines.
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Strangely enough all the twins that we have found have been boy/boy...no girls at all.
Karenlee
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Laugh if you may - but I have twins and I must admit I enjoyed eating twin bananas!!! so perhaps there is something in bananas!!!
Butterlily
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Identical twins are thought to be entirely random while fraternal twins are a genetic trait which has been carried by the mother.
See:
http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=86
David
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Lots of twins in my family
the most recent ones are:
paternal line
I was a twin - my twin brother died shortly after birth
My father's brother had twin boys- one died 7days old, the other died 10 days old
Maternal line
My great aunt had 3 sets of twins -
1 boy 1 girl -boy died shortly after birth
2 boys both died shortly after birth
2 girls both surviving
My great grandmother had twin boys -both died shortly after birth
My cousin has triplets (2girls 1 boy -all surviving -non feature each other)
Suz
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a history of fraternal twins only helps if it comes in on the mother’s side.
From the website David posted.
That explains why, although my paternal gran had two sets of twins, there haven't been any born since. She had 6 children, 3 were daughters. The eldest didn't have any children, the next (who happened to be my dad's twin sister) had 5 boys, and the youngest had one daughter. That means that only the daughter of the youngest might have had twins and guess what - she hasn't had any children.
I've not found any other twins in my tree at all.
Lizzie
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My son and his wife have boy/girl twins. My DIL's maternal side had multiple births, but none of DIL's sisters have twins.
My daughter had a friend who was one of naturally-occurring quads (all girls). When they learnt to drive, their dad took out group insurance!
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My great grandmother was a twin, and I can think of about a total of 12 sets of twins in my tree.
I loved finding my great nans birth certificate...her sister was on the same page. Two for the price of one wooo!
Matt ;)
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My great grandmother Elizabeth Fielder was a twin; to my knowledge there are no twins in any of her descendent lines. However, her sister had twins, and to date I have found 17 other sets of twins in Fielder line from my 2 x great grandparents (ie: from 1815 to present day) from Elizabeth's brothers and sisters.
Not all these were from my great grandmother's sisters lines - 5 sets are in her brother George's line, 2 in her brother John's, although through daughters lines not sons. Some of the lines apparently have none at all, several of the families have 2 sets of twins, Harriet's line has twins in every generation.
I hadn't previously registered - til I read this thread - that although they are all decended from Henry Fielder, only Elizabeth and Eliza are surnamed Fielder :o :D
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Theres twins in my partner's family (his Dad is a twin) and in my family (my Aunties were twins). It regularly skips a generation and I have lost count of the sets of twins I have found. (siblings and direct descendants)
No-one in my generation was a twin, nor in the next generation....... yet; do you think I'd be tempting fate if I had another child?
Tx
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My Father was a twin but his twin died at birth. He never spoke about it and none of us knew until my sister thought that she might be having twins and asked if there were any in the family (she didn't have twins). More recently, since getting into this tree business, I've found more twins in my Fathers line.
Woody.
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My grandad on my mum's side was a twin ( boy/boy) 1906. His dad was also a twin ( boy/girl )1877.
I haven't managed to get any further back yet because the family name is DAVIES and it's in Wales and they are all hiding from me! :D
xx
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There is a history of twins on mum's side of the family.
More recent..... my son and daughter-in-law's children, have a grandmother who is an identical twin (not me!) and a great-grandmother, who is also an identical twin (no missed generation there ;D). Another great-grandmother of theirs, my mum, is a twin (girl/boy). My daughter-in-law also has twin girl/boy cousins!
It must be second nature to my grandchildren to see (and want!) double.... my granddaughter is requesting a twin pram and twin dolls for Christmas this year!!
justmej
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Both me and my husband have twins in our families and we have twin boys ourselves (or should I say men - they are 31 now!) Strangely both sides are fraternal twins - so we don't see double.
The first lot of twins on my husband's side are in 1644 - they both died within days and then in 1655 the second lot of twins survived. Both sets to the same parents. The first twins on my side, that I know about, are in 1829 - one survived and one didn't. Since then there have been quite a few twins on both sides - none identical. My poor daughter is really excited at the thought that she might be the next to have twins! :o
Ruby
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Ya! Found aonther set of twins. ;D
Rosa & Margaret CULUM,b.1890 Bury St. Edmunds.
thats the 2nd set now. 8)
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My Maternal Grandma was a twin, and my wife is a twin.
I've already pre-warned my son! ;D
Thudders
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I didnt know of any twins in my family until I started doing family history. The first set were in my mum's side, back in the 1860s and I havent yet followed them forwards to see who they married etc.
However, the other set I found follows a sad story. I found out that in my dad's family we had a criminal. So excited I was, so I found out that in 1840, he was sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing some potatoes and some flour, the scoundrel.
About 2 years after he was imprisoned on a hulk at Gosport, his wife then had 2 boys. Then just 9 and 11 days later the boys both died. The certificates state that they had a disability from birth.
Unknown to my ancestors, his appeal for a kings pardon was about to be granted and he came back to live with the family just 4 years after being sentanced and never left the country at all.
I have the death certs but have got the birth certs on my 'to send for' list, so dont know who will be reigstered as the father. I supposed that there is an outside chance thsat she got to visit him and the children were conceived during that visit, but I reckon she thought, as you would, that she would never see her husband again as the chances of someone coming back from transportation was low, and so started a relationship with someone else, lost her babies and then her husband comes back out of the blue. I feel really sorry for her.
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Priot to 1837 you have to have access to the original records to be sure they are twins.
The most common record is baptism and only sometimes were the birth dates recorded (the further back the less common)
Unless you have the birth dates recorded you could be just looking ar multiple baptisms.
Rog
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Thanks for that Rog. That was something that had not crossed my mind. However now you have pointed it out that makes sense.
Funny thing I found a baptism the other day on 25th December
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The 25 December, one of the few holidays during the year was a favourite day for baptisms and weddings amongst the poor labouring classes.
David
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I have a familly of 13 and was very confused at 1st as the parents decided to baptise them in 3s and 4s. I had a heck of a job sorting them out. None of them werre twins.
Rog
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I've only managed to find 2 sets of twins, both on my Mum's side
on my Grandfathers side William & Thomas Lindsell, born 1853
on my Nans side Thomas & Dolly Lavender born 1918
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I'm a twin (two boys), my father was a twin (boy/girl) and my maternal grandmother had twin sisters and twin aunts. My wife has no history of twins in her family and we haven't had any. I don't expect my daughter therefore to produce a twin. However.....time will tell!
These days it's recognised that a twin can be slow to relate to the outside world and so be slow to learn to talk and one of them tends to be left-handed. I wonder if a genealogical survey can throw up any other twin-isms. There's also the question of how far apart the births were and the significance of having different birthdays. The research possibilities must be endless...............
Noo -I think I'd feel even more sorry for your relative's wife if the twin was still alive when he returned!
Phil
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3 sets of twins that i've found on one side in less than 5 generations. my grandmother had two sets one set of which died due to her rhesus blood they i believe were identical but she already had apart from my dad a set of non identical twin girls. never heard of twins being mentioned other in the family and then began this hobby and discover her grandmother had had a set of twins who survived childhood but both died in young adulthood so she didn't know them. funnily enough when i was pregnant with both daughters and didn't discover till i was almost 5 months with both of them I was scanned to check for twins. would have loved twins then but now no.