Not (as far as I know) related to my OH, but I just noticed this looking through the baptisms for St Michael on Wyre, Lancashire, from 1738:
June 18: Richard, James, Anne and Agnes, twin sons & daughters at one birth of Ralph Dickinson & his wife Jane of Sowerby House, Upper Rawcliffe.
Then in the burials, not surprisingly:
June 26 James, son of Ralph Dickinson
Jul 1 Ann, daughter of Ralph Dickinson
Aug 31 Richard, son of Ralph Dickinson
... and as far as I can see, Agnes survived! Though not found out how long for yet.
So was the term "quadruplets" not in use in those days? And if not, then what would they have called them if they were all the same sex?
(And by the way, it appears that Jane was only given the honour of having her name in the PR's because she had so many babies at once, not because she lived in the "big house", as the entry for their previous child only gives father's name.)
June 18: Richard, James, Anne and Agnes, twin sons & daughters at one birth of Ralph Dickinson & his wife Jane of Sowerby House, Upper Rawcliffe.
Then in the burials, not surprisingly:
June 26 James, son of Ralph Dickinson
Jul 1 Ann, daughter of Ralph Dickinson
Aug 31 Richard, son of Ralph Dickinson
... and as far as I can see, Agnes survived! Though not found out how long for yet.
So was the term "quadruplets" not in use in those days? And if not, then what would they have called them if they were all the same sex?
(And by the way, it appears that Jane was only given the honour of having her name in the PR's because she had so many babies at once, not because she lived in the "big house", as the entry for their previous child only gives father's name.)
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