"recycled" dates

[Gaille]

Does anyone else see a pattern of dates being reused within their family?

Theres certain dates in my family that seem to be used over and over again.

My own birthday its one of them, its also my gt gt grandma's anniversary and the anniversary of gt aunts death (and weirdly her name - Annie - is my nickname even tho its nothing like my own name)

My grandma and shares a birthday with my sister in laws mum

My nephew was born on the anniversary of my sisters god mothers death, and My god daughter was born the day my god mother died.

My anniversary with my ex partner was the same date as my brother and sister in laws wedding.

2 of my gtgt grandparents share a death date several years apart.

obviously these are all coincidences but it just struck me how often the same date reoccured

Gaille

[Rishile]

Yes - constantly.  My birthday appears all the time and my wedding anniversary date too.  My mother married on the same date (but different year, obviously) as her mother and father married but I don't know if that was intentional.

I find it amazing every time I find a new one.

Rishile

[Deb D]

Not quite within the context, ... but I think I've mentioned before that there was one date, every year, on which one or another of my brothers (and my Dad, on one occasion!) would end up in the Casualty ward of the local hospital!  "Tool Time" scripted it as a joke, ... but it actually happened that the staff at the hospital used to wait for us to arrive, on that date!

[Pinetree]

I have a friend whose family's birthdays all seem to fall on special occasions such as Christmas day, Valentine's day, bonfire night.  Maybe the expectant mothers over exerted themselves celebrating bringing on the new arrivals 

[behindthefrogs]

There is nothing unusual or family related about people having the same birthday.  Simple statistics show that if you have 23 people in a room the probability is that two of them will have the same birthday.

You are presumably looking at a much larger number of relatives than 23 and a number of different events.  What you are seeing thus has nothing to do with family traits it is just a statistically expected result.

[HeatherLynne]

I have a database with 119 people's birthdays in it (not family history but work related).  Of these 28 share their birthday with someone else, mostly with just one other person but there are two dates on which three people celebrate!

If I look at my family tree there's hardly any instance of duplication of dates - and that's with over 300 people, seems that's more unlikely than having dates shared       brain's hurting now, time for lunch!

Heather

[Guyana]

I recall a stosy where all the children in a family arrived on the same date, with the same weight.

The father's occupation? Precision Grinder.

[hugatree]

Mum was born on her parent's wedding anniversary, she never knew until I got their marriage certificate last year and she's 87 now!

[LizzieW]

I've not found anyone of my descendants with my birthday.  My gran had her first daughter on her birthday.

In a different way, my daughter has "recycled" dates, in that her first child a son was born on St David's Day, no she didn't call him David, and her second child a daughter was born on St Patrick's Day 2 years later. 

Lizzie