Sharing the same Aunt

I had moved from Scotland to Essex in October 1968 and when my Essex born wife was having our first child in Chelmsford, St John’s Hospital on Nov 9, 1974 there seemed to be an element of co-incidence with the lady in the next bed, a Mrs F who too was an English lady and also had a child on the same day. My wife rang me to say the while chatting to this lady she said her husband too was Scottish – and on being asked if she had ever visited Scotland, my wife said that she had and went to visit (among others) his “old Aunt Meg in Bowling” – a small town between Glasgow and Dumbarton. Interestingly, this other lady said that her husband too had an “old Aunt Meg in Bowling” so both husbands were asked to visit that evening at the same time. It seemed impossible that two English mothers meeting in a maternity hospital 400 miles from where their husbands came from could possibly share the same aunt. At the evening visit I met her husband, Willie F, and it appeared that indeed we both shared the same aunt. He was related to my aunt’s Husband – my uncle Iain - and my aunt Meg was my Mother’s sister. Neither of us knew of the others existence at that time – dear Aunt Meg has long since passed on.