Cambridge Coincidences Collection

Well I Never!

Professor David Spiegelhalter of Cambridge University wants to know about your coincidences!

Husband & wife coincidence

My husband and I met in London . We later discovered many things in common .Both sets of parents married the same day 26/12/1939 We were born in the same Hillingdon hospital despite Alan coming from Essex & me from Hayes Middlesex.His mum staying with relatives in Rislip due to the war . My ancestors come from the village in Essex where husband Alan was brought up & his ancestors come from. I was unaware of this until I did our family trees .We have relatives in common in our family trees .We grew up many miles away from each other . Barbara Clark nee Bartholomew

Repeat Meeting in Different Location

In summer 1970 my family and I had had a disastrously bad weather experience camping in NW Scotland and were taking a week at random in South Wales as compensation before school and work began again. We did not choose the camp site at Llangennith but were forced by earlier choices being full up. The only suitable pitch for our rather large tent was next to a family which was just beginning to pack up, and, after we were established, we offered to give a hand, as campers do. The fellow asked what I did and when I said I was in the RAF asked if I knew so and so.

2 war bombed schools. Flight passengers addresses.

No.1<br /> Before the blitz on London I was evacuated to Cranliegh in Surrey,shortly afterwards my mother informed me that my old school had been destroyed by a bomb. (V1). I was then moved to a new address in Shamley Green Surrey. I was then told that the school in Cranleigh had suffered the same fate.<br /> No 2.<br /> In August 2011,I was seated on a United Airways flight from Chicago,the seat next me was then taken by a very large American Negro who lived in Canada. I ask him where he was going,he replied "London to attend a wedding". I asked what part?

in-laws

Hi my name is Mike, I am now 68 yrs old, but when I was very young (12), in 1957 my family moved from Dublin, Ireland to Worcester, Massachusetts. this is a lengthy story but I must give you some details. Three years later we moved to Los Angeles., this being the early sixties and me being a free spirit I left home and went to San Francisco to sample some flower power. From there I traveled extensively, not returning to L.A. for about 10 years.

The Fedora

I was watching the quiz show 'the chase' when one of the questions informed me that Indiana Jones' hat was called a Fedora. After the show finished I decided to catch up an episode of 'the Big Bang theory' when one of the characters asked the other to borrow the others Fedora for a Halloween party. This was the first time I had heard of this and I think it a coincidence that they both happened on the same day. I do recall this kind of thing has happened to me around 3 times at least.

Socks

I decided to sort a pile of socks into pairs and watch an episode of 'peep show' when right at the start of the episode the main character is putting socks on and tacking about socks extensively.

Birthday boys

My birthday is 26th February, my first son was also born on this day. Two years later I had another son born on 26th February.

Family birthdate

Our middle son was born naturally (i.e. not induced) on the 20th April 1981.<br /> My wife and I were married on the 20th April 1976 (that was easy to arrange).<br /> My wife was born on the 20th April 1949.<br /> My wife's father was born in Poland on the 20th April 1914.<br /> Adolf Hitler was born on the 20th April 1889 (irrelevant coincidental fact).<br /> My wife's grandmother was born on the 20th April 18?? (in Poland, we're not sure exactly which year).<br />

Where I live

1. We live in a semi detatched farmhouse in a small village in rural Bedfordshire. Our previous neighbours moved out and another couple moved in. Talking over the fence a week or so later I explained that I had orginally come from London. They said that they had previously lived in London for a few years. I asked where: they said Teddington. I said that, although we had grown up in the Brixton area, my older brother had lived in Teddington for a few years before he moved to Cape Town....whereabouts were you? Oh a little terraced side-street called Railway Rd. Ok-ay..what number? No. 17.

Birthday coincidence

My (STEP)FATHER WAS BORN ON jANUARY 26TH. I am the eldest of my mother's three children, but the only one not related by blood to him. MY ELDEST SON, HIS FIRST GRANDCHILD, WAS BORN ON JANUARY 26TH. MY HALF BROTHER'S ONLY SON WAS BORN ON JANUARY 26TH. Significantly, on my father's 65th birthday, my son was 21 and my brother's son was 18.

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