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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: bykerlads on Thursday 28 February 13 19:52 GMT (UK)
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Am I the only person to have absolutely noone in my Tree who has/had the same birthday as me?
You'd think out of all those hundreds of ancestors, whose exact date I have managed to find, one would have had the same as me!!
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No, of all the people in my tree 3236 according to Legacy, there is no-one sharing my birthday, no-one sharing my husband's birthday in July, our daughter's in November, one of our sons also in November, my mother's in September and the only person who shared a birthday with my dad was his twin sister. :o
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I share the same birthday as my grandfather, but, apart from that I don't have any other matching birthdays in my tree at all!
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One of my daughters was born on the same day as her paternal great grandmother and we've had two more children born into the family on the same day which I think is a miricle considering that no other birthdays match up...
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Ours come in clusters. In one month on the 18th, my maternal grandmother, the 23rd my great aunt and my younger son, then 2 days later me. Other close groupings in one week like that through the year but no others on the same day, nor can I see any on the wider tree.
Due to reasons I won't bore you all with, several months before my son's birth the operating theatre was booked for his arrival, and I was able to go out and phone my great aunt to tell her "Guess what you are getting for your 89th birthday?" The following year his first and her 90th managed a joint message on the radio.
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My Nan had a nephew born on the same day (year and all) as her. I can imagine her proud brother telling his parents that his baby was born, only to hear them say "yeah, we had one today, too."
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I was a teacher of French for 37 years and asked every single pupil I taught what their birthday was- "quelle est la date de ton anniversaire?"- only 2 out of many thousands shared my birthday!
Currently in the family, birthday-months seem to be grouped together, mainly either Autumn or July.
Haven't done an analysis of all the ancestors' dates though. It would be interesting, though time-consuming, to see if birth month was linked to survival both in the short and long term.
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At work years ago, it was the tradition to bring in cream cakes on your birthday. I mentioned that I would be doing that for mine and it turned out that 3 other colleagues were born on the same day and in the same year!!! And one of them was a twin so that made 5 of us :o
Strangely enough one of the twins' sons shared a birthday with my daughter but not the same year.
My ancestors' birthdays also come in clusters and certain months are definitely more common & recur in the family in the present day
Pat
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My eldest daughter shares her birthday with my mum. She was my parents first grandchild and my mum stills says 23 years on that she was the best birthday present that she has ever received.
My youngest daughter was born on the same day as my great grandmother 135 years apart.
On a sadder note my beloved dad died on my wedding anniversary. We have not celebrated it from that day on.
Best Wishes
CJL
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On a sadder note my beloved dad died on my wedding anniversary. We have not celebrated it from that day on.
CJL sad as you are about your dad's death, I'm sure he wouldn't have wanted you to stop celebrating your wedding anniversary.
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LizzieW,
You are right my dad would not have wanted us to stop celebrating our anniversary but that date each year holds entirely different memories for me now and celebrating is usually the last thing on my mind.
Best Wishes
CJL
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I share the same birthday as my gt grandmothers sister...She was born in 1888 and I was born in 1966....She died in 1952 so I never knew her...
Jules..
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My nephew has 3 children, age 4, 3 and 2, and each one was born on the birthday of someone in the family.
When we had a family get together a couple of years ago of with a total of 20 people there, there were 4 sets of "same day birthdays" , not only the 3 children above, but also my sons girlfriend's birthday was the same as my nephews wife.
Incredible that out of 20 people, only 12 weren't sharing a birthday with someone else there!
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I don`t have anyone who shares my birthday in my tree but my son has the same birthday as my Dad. My Dad died when I was young and I was never quite sure of when his birthday was until my son was born. I always feel a tinge of sadness on my son`s birthday but I do think it is lovely that they have the same birthday and it does make my son and Dad feel closer in a way. I always calculate how old Dad would have been and I am sure he would have loved it sharing the day with my son.
Another coincidence my sister is 4 years older than me and her birthday is two days after mine, and her sons her eldest is 4 years older than her youngest son and guess what his birthday is two days after the youngest!
Sarah
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.My nephew shares same birthday as his grandfather. My son shares his birthday with his uncle. A brother in law shares his birthday with his aunt. I share my birthday with a sister and a co-worker 8)
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Well when I started going out with my husband I found out that his parents shared the same birthday and discovered it was the same day as my Mother's and my Mother and his Dad were born in the same year.
We had a son and he was born on his Dad's birthday which was really amazing so the poor boys have to share their birthdays.
But the other weird fact in the family is that my husband's Dad died on the 28th Sept and then I had done research before he had died and found out his Father had died on that day and also his Grandmother on the same side had died on that day so the 28th Sept is not a good day in his family now.
Emma
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Assuming all dates in the year are equally likely, in a room of more than 23 people, it is more likely than not that two people share a birthday. With 57 people, the probability reaches 99%.
There are actually peaks and troughs through the year. I'm pretty certain that my birth in September was not unrelated to goings on at Christmas (a "peak"); Bykerlads' birth was likely in one of the "troughs", though there is also a special case - February 29th, which could be an explanation.
Modern medical practice also skews birthday distribution. How many c-sections would be scheduled for December 25th?
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My great Grandmother celebrated her 63rd birthday with the birth of her first great grandchild, me ;D
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I haven't found anyone in my tree who shares mine but, a bit OT, had a funny experience at a company. I was new and shared an office with a woman a good few years older. She was a bit stiff-lipped and I didn't feel very welcome.
On my birthday, a man walked into the office with a large bunch of flowers and I gaped - who could possibly know it was my birthday? He then gave them to my colleague and wished her happy birthday. This broke the ice for about a week ;D
The neighbour in the house opposite also shares my birthday.
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On my tree I share my birthday with a 1st cousin 4 times removed, born in 1859, and that is all out of a very large tree. My mother, however, had the same birthday as her grandmother, and it was the date she was due to have me, only I decided to be nearly two weeks late.
I do, however, share a birthday with a friend's sister, including being born in the same year. We are not at all alike!
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Not shared with anyone on my tree, but Sir Donald Bradman and Mother Theresa and I all share 27 August ;D ;D ;D
Other shared dates - my cousin has 2 children, a boy and a girl and they were born exactly 2 years apart, i.e. both with same birthday but different years.
And I've noted that several things in the family have happened on 9th August - births, deaths, marriages! And that's spread over both my mum's and my dad's 'trees' ??? ??? ???
Dawn M