Hi Listers, I would like to thank eveyone who send me a note on my problem -- specifically the death of the STACPOOLE twin girls. The answer was that they were only 15 weeks old -- not years. This now makes sense and it is logical. Unfortunately this poor family lost 5 infants between 1895 & 98. There was a suggestion that there was an strong TB epidemic in the area at the time. One interesting aspect of studying genealogy is that you can almost appreciate the life styles --and deaths -- of our ancestors Cheers, Ted