Hi Charani No, I had come to that conclusion quite a few years ago when I had checked the GRO and bought the certificate that it had been a myth and believed that until yesterday. My gran's brothers were all older, the youngest was put in an orphanage (he was about 10), the others were all at work. When my gran's mother died she asked her sister to look after my gran, and so my gran moved from Cheltenham to Birmingham, and from then on called her aunt 'mother'. On speaking to the daughter of the brother that went into the orphanage (Bill), she said Bill had always spoken of his twin sisters. This has thrown a spanner into the works. My nan had been told by her aunt she was a twin, too, so all this is very odd. I think I shall leave it to lie now, because it will drive me mad if I don't, but I am very very curious. Pauline ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charani" <familyhunter@family-hunter.co.uk> To: <gloucester@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 9:36 AM Subject: Re: [GLS] Birth of Twins > Pauline Roberts wrote: > > > > I have had a full print-out of all the burials under that name (Quiney) at > > Cheltenham cemetery, which was opened in 1864 (I think), and the only place > > that anyone could be buried who lived in that part of town, because the > > churchyard was closed by then, so I have eliminated that. There are other > > childrenof the same name, one lived two minutes, one lived two seconds, but > > they were not the same dates, and were the children of another member of the > > same family. We had understood that the child lived a little while, and > > this person I spoke to yesterday had said to his daughters that he had twin > > sisters. It is all very bizarre. > > If the child lived, then she would have been registered both birth and > death. > > Would a 4 year old really know whether there had been twin sisters, > esp if there was lost contact between family members? > > To be perfectly honest, I don't think there were twins. > > -- > Charani (UK) > >