On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 17:22:58 -0400 Anne Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Anne, >Do I assume they were twins and the second entry just got recorded 2 Not even if the certificate for the one you already have, if you have it, has a time (of birth) on it. Early birth registrations often had time of birth recorded (Registrar dependant) irrespective of twinship. Another option is that two DOVE women married two YELLAND men. The only way to be 100% is to acquire both certificates. >liklihood of another YELLAND / DOVE marriage is quite unlikely I would >think. But not impossible. I have two such cases in my tree. Although, to be fair, one such coincidental pairing does not occur within the same RD. I also have two double marriages; two brothers to two sisters - one set were even married the same day in a double ceremony. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" My body's an oasis to drink from as you please Mirage - Siouxsie & The Banshees

Hello Anne -- If you're good with spreadsheets, it is possible to analyse all the entries around that time and guess what registration sub-district your two registrations are in. The method has been written up at Genealogy Stack Exchange: What “hidden” clues are there in the GRO Indexes of births and deaths? <http://genealogy.stackexchange.com/q/10355/1006> The author designed this as an aid to distinguish two same-name individuals, but you might be able to tell a little bit more about how close these two registrations were geographically. His worked example is from 1858, which is close in time to what you need. His method can be used for births and deaths from 1837 up to 1936. I also try to cross-check the GRO registrations against parish records when possible. Good luck! Jan Jan Murphy [email protected] On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Brad Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 17:22:58 -0400 > Anne Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Anne, > > >Do I assume they were twins and the second entry just got recorded 2 > > Not even if the certificate for the one you already have, if you have it, > has a time (of birth) on it. Early birth registrations often had time > of birth recorded (Registrar dependant) irrespective of twinship. > Another option is that two DOVE women married two YELLAND men. > > The only way to be 100% is to acquire both certificates. > > >liklihood of another YELLAND / DOVE marriage is quite unlikely I would > >think. > > But not impossible. I have two such cases in my tree. Although, to be > fair, one such coincidental pairing does not occur within the same RD. I > also have two double marriages; two brothers to two sisters - one set > were even married the same day in a double ceremony. > > -- > Regards _ > / ) "The blindingly obvious is > / _)rad never immediately apparent" > My body's an oasis to drink from as you please > Mirage - Siouxsie & The Banshees > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb. > ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >