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Ali

Ali Report 15 May 2015 16:08

Hi all

If someone was looking up twins (girl & boy) would the ref for them be exactly the same number or not please?

kind regards

alison

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 15 May 2015 16:25

The page nos could be the same or consecutive

ie they list so many names on one page then start a new page . One twin could be the last one on a page and the other twin the first listing on the next page

Or they could both be listed on the same page :-)

makes no difference if the twins are identical or not ,each would have their own birth registration

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

Jacqueline

Jacqueline Report 15 May 2015 17:36

It normally would be............but, in rare instances, they are on consecutive pages

The Volume number would definitely be the same

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Ali

Ali Report 15 May 2015 17:55

thank you very much

SuCal

SuCal Report 20 May 2015 23:41

On UKBMD summary sheets
they are the same - I had Thomas and James twins born in Stoke on Trent in 1839 and both identical reference BUR/002/074

SuCal

SuCal Report 20 May 2015 23:43

p.s quite usefully on there it often gives mothers maiden name too

mgnv

mgnv Report 21 May 2015 15:47

Susan - No - the same thing applies (at least when the last element (like 074) is a page # - in fact, since the local pages have only 5 entries per page, it's more likely that twins will be split across consecutive pages.

Some subdistricts use the entry # as the last element (they nearly always do for marrs, which is how spouses can be paired up). Birth (and death) registers only have 100 pages, so if the last element is in the range 101-500, then they're definitely using entry #s - e.g.,

Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1841
Surname Forename(s) Sub-District Registers At Mother's Maiden Name Reference
AINSCOW Peter Standish Wigan & Leigh KNOWLS STND/1/481
AINSCOW Edward Standish Wigan & Leigh KNOWLS STND/1/482

Ali

Ali Report 4 Jun 2015 17:01

Thank you all for your help with this x