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Offline gah

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twin births
« on: Friday 28 March 08 22:57 GMT (UK) »
  Hi all,
                I was just wondering if anyone could tell me , when twins are born does it state anything on the birth certificate , to indicate a double birth

                       gah

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Re: twin births
« Reply #1 on: Friday 28 March 08 22:58 GMT (UK) »
yes it does, it gove the time of birth next to the date!
my grandfather was a twin he was born at 7am in the morning!

about 1 in 8 pregnancies are twins


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Re: twin births
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 29 March 08 05:06 GMT (UK) »
Hello Gah

My grandad was a twin and on his birth certificate it states the time of birth.,


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Re: twin births
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 29 March 08 08:45 GMT (UK) »
Beware that occasionally you will find the time of birth on a birth certificate when the baby was not a twin

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Re: twin births
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 29 March 08 10:16 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: behindthefrogs on Saturday 29 March 08 08:45 GMT (UK)
Beware that occasionally you will find the time of birth on a birth certificate when the baby was not a twin

David

... and always for a birth registered in Scotland - whether or not it was a twin!

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Re: twin births
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 29 March 08 12:22 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: toni* on Friday 28 March 08 22:58 GMT (UK)
about 1 in 8 pregnancies are twins

I thought it was 1 in 80 odd.
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Re: twin births
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 29 March 08 12:23 GMT (UK) »
(Apart from Scotland)
Could the 'single' birth with a time have been a Twin Birth where one of the twins was Stillborn ?
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Re: twin births
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 29 March 08 12:34 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Mumsie2131 on Saturday 29 March 08 12:23 GMT (UK)
(Apart from Scotland)
Could the 'single' birth with a time have been a Twin Birth where one of the twins was Stillborn ?

Possibly but I have a vague recollection of reading about an individual registrar somewhere always recording the time of birth when he could find it out.

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Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse, Stevens, Batchelor
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Re: twin births
« Reply #8 on: Monday 31 March 08 11:11 BST (UK) »
   Many thank's to all who replied , i see from some of the replies that scotland (like some other countrys appear to give more details on their certificates ) i read somewhere that Australia (think it was there ) that on death certs they even give siblings names etc where possible , wish we had that here in the u.k.

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