First cousins 35 mins apart

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My daughter was born on May 25th 2004. My husband's brother's daughter was born that same night, just 35 minutes later. When the babies were conceived we were living in London and my brother-in-law and his wife were living in New Zealand and neither or us knew the other was trying for a baby when we became pregnant. They then moved back to England and their baby was born in Manchester and ours in London. So the first cousins are also twins. One weighed 9lbs 10oz, the other 9lb 12oz. Both had a red mark on their eyelid (though these are apparently quite common in new-borns). To further the coincidence, my mother-in-law, who is grandmother to the two girls has four grand-daughters born between 22nd and 25th May, a grand-daughter by each of her four children.
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Date submitted:Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:45:48 +0000Coincidence ID:4979

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Anonymous (not verified)

Mon, 16/01/2012 - 1:51am

When I was getting married in 1998 a friend recommended a dress-maker to make my dress, a man living in Ealing. I lived in Hammersmith and had hardly been to Ealing. I phoned my mother in Cambridge to tell her that I had been to see him, and she asked where he lived. I said "Ealing" and she said "oh I lived there when I was a child in the 1950's, where did he live?" and I said "Madeley Road" and she said, "that's the road I lived, which number?" and I said "98" and that is where she lived! She came to visit him and remembered the house a bit.

Anonymous (not verified)

Mon, 16/01/2012 - 2:03am

We moved to live in Brazil for a few months in 1998 straight after our wedding, and my husband's grandmother said "I had some relatives who went to live in Brazil, I wonder if you will meet them", (as old ladies do). (We thought it pretty ridiculous, as they went in about the 19 20's or 1930's). She sat down and went through the family tree with me, and showed me a photo of herself as bridesmaid at the wedding with the aunt who went. She knew that she had had a son, and grandson who was born out in Brazil in about the 40's and told us their names, but the family had lost contact with the family who had gone to Brazil. When we arrived in Brazil 4 days later was the annual Caledonian Ball, and my husband and I went along knowing nobody. We were dancing a dance where you keep dancing with new people in a large circle, I forget its name, and I found myself dancing with a man who had the name label on with the name of the 'longlost' grandson of the aunt of my husband's grandmother. It turned out to be the man himself!! We found him without even looking!