Twins born one year apart?

[PeteW1959]

Has anyone heard of twins with DOBs a year apart?

I have a family on the 1911 with two daughters, one under one month and the other 1 year, but whoever filled the form in has put a bracket round them and written twins.

I have checked on the GRO index (both on the GRO website and FreeBMD to eliminate transcription errors) and they were indeed registered a year apart!

I can't check on the 1921 as one died in 1912 and the other in 1918.

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[Darksecretz]

Maybe there were two sets of twins?

[Anne in Carlisle]

Oops just realised it is a census form rather than a baptism so deleted my comment. Very odd though.
Anne

[cbcarolyn]

how odd - can't decide if added afterwards by someone else that was confused!

First name(s) Caroline Cecilia
Last name Friend
Birth quarter 1
Birth year 1910
Mother's maiden name Terry
District Steyning
County Sussex
Country England
Volume 2B
Page 230
Record set England & Wales Births 1837-2006
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Civil Births
Collections from Great Britain, England


First name(s) Kathleen M
Last name Friend
Birth quarter 2
Birth year 1911
Mother's maiden name -
District Steyning
County Sussex
Country England
Volume 2B
Page 237
Record set England & Wales Births 1837-2006
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Civil Births
Collections from Great Britain, England

[Darksecretz]

I was just looking too, I wondered of there were other births to go with the two already listed.

[cbcarolyn]

I was just looking too, I wondered of there were other births to go with the two already listed.

unless stillborn, and never registered?

[GallowayLass]

These are all the births I can see for FRIEND mms TERRY 1906-1913. Odd that one of the 1906 ones is in Dover not Steyning.
Tried to find Elsie May by just using her name and no mms. Got half a dozen results but none with mms remotely like TERRY. Found her - see below.
There was another FRIEND/TERRY marriage which took place in Dover so that counts for Walter Charles in 1906 and various other FRIEND children born in Dover.

Name:	Mother's Maiden Surname:
FRIEND, GEORGE GERALD	TERRY
GRO Reference: 1906 D Quarter in STEYNING Volume 02B Page 249
FRIEND, WALTER CHARLES	TERRY
GRO Reference: 1906 D Quarter in DOVER Volume 02A Page 108

	FRIEND, CAROLINE CECILIA	TERRY
GRO Reference: 1910 M Quarter in STEYNING Volume 02B Page 230
	FRIEND, KATHLEEN MARY	TERRY
GRO Reference: 1911 J Quarter in STEYNING Volume 02B Page 237

	FRIEND, JOSEPH ERNEST WILLIAM	TERRY
GRO Reference: 1916 M Quarter in STEYNING Volume 02B Page 438
	FRIEND, STANLEY ARTHUR	TERRY
GRO Reference: 1913 J Quarter in STEYNING Volume 02B Page 451

UPDATE: found parents marriage 1901. I hadn’t gone back far enough to find the other children on the 1911. Elsie May born before marriage but James FRIEND seems to be birth father.

TERRY, ELSIE MAY FRIEND	-
GRO Reference: 1900 J Quarter in STEYNING Volume 02B Page 294

	FRIEND, JOHN JAMES	TERRY
GRO Reference: 1902 D Quarter in STEYNING Volume 02B Page 248

	FRIEND, VIOLET IRENE	TERRY
GRO Reference: 1903 S Quarter in STEYNING Volume 02B Page 295

[Darksecretz]

unless stillborn, and never registered?

mm I thought something in similar lines... well, they probably were registered just not in the main register, I forget offhand just when the stillbirth register came into being.

ah ETA: the register was started in 1927, but I have seen burials for still born children...

[GallowayLass]

I don’t know if you have the marriage details?

Banns first called 5th May 1901, then 12th and 19th in St. Leonard, Aldrington - James Friend (bachelor) and Hannah Terry (spinster) both of this parish.

Marriage in St. Leonard, Aldrington, Sussex 26th May 1901
James Friend (bachelor), age 23, Bricklayer residing 132 Westbourne Street, father John Friend (dec), Labourer
Hannah Terry (spinster), age 27, residing 132 Westbourne Street, father James Terry, Farm labourer
Both parties signed, witnesses William Slaughter and Annie Terry both of whom signed.

[Janet in Yorkshire]

Perhaps whoever went to register the births didn't realise that each child had to be registered individually??? and the second child was a late registration when the error was eventually realised??
I think that one would possibly be a birth cert for my wish list to see if the registrar had added a comment and if so, what it was?

Have you found them both on the 1939 register to check their dob?

[Glen in Tinsel Knickers]

Perhaps whoever went to register the births didn't realise that each child had to be registered individually??? and the second child was a late registration when the error was eventually realised??
I think that one would possibly be a birth cert for my wish list to see if the registrar had added a comment and if so, what it was?

Have you found them both on the 1939 register to check their dob?

From the original post 'one died in 1912 and the other in 1918.'