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03-01-14, 10:45
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Triplets in 1838
I have lots of incidences of twins in my tree, but this is the first set of triplets I have come across. Two girls and a boy and Mum all survived the birth, but I think only the boy lived to adulthood. Mum went on to have more children, and eventually died in 1878, at the age of 74. Must have come from hardy stock!
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03-01-14, 12:12
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I was idling round the internet one day, as you do, and came across a small site which had transcribed some births from Liverpool newspapers (about 1780 onwards, from memory).
The transcriber had transcribed only multiple births and I was utterly astonished at how many sets of triplets were born, at least one set per month! OC
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03-01-14, 13:54
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I'm not sure what the incidence of triplets is, and whether it has increased (one imagines with IVF and better antenatal care it has) but I'm sure the survival rates weren't as good and babies that were stillborn wouldn't have been registered.
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Love from Nell researching Chowns in Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Brewer, Broad, Eplett & Pope in Cornwall Smoothy & Willsher/Wiltshire in Essex & Surrey Emms, Mealing + variants, Purvey & Williams in Gloucestershire Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham, Saul/Seals/Sales in Norfolk Matthews & Nash in Warwickshire
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03-01-14, 17:08
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Nell
A distant (and probably faulty!) memory says that twin births occur NATURALLY in one in every 80,000 births and triplets one in every 800,000 births. OC
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03-01-14, 19:18
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No, these were birth announcements from the newspaper. I was astonished and wondered what was in the Liverpool water!
(I also wanted to know why the person had extracted all multiple births and put them on a website, but that's another question!). OC
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04-01-14, 09:06
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OC it is triplets that occur naturally about one in 80,000. Twin births are about one in 80 though it increases with age of mother and number of pregnancies. IVF has increased the number of twin births but in this country they no longer implant three embryos as it is considered too high risk. I have found a few sets of twins from Victorian times in my tree but no triplets.
My twins were at school with a set of triplet girls and it looked very hard work looking after three.
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04-01-14, 20:24
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I came across these triplets a while ago:
Births Dec 1870 Arnold Betsy Birmingham 6d 153 Arnold Ellen Birmingham 6d 153 Arnold John Birmingham 6d 153 I thought they were related to me, but they turned out not to be. They're on the 1871 census, aged 6 months, but only the girls were still alive in 1881; the boy died in 1871.
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04-01-14, 22:22
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I used to work with a woman (tebbly tebbly posh) who was a triplet. They were born in a farmhouse during the war, no electric, no water etc and were quite small. The midwife put them in a shoebox lined with cotton wool and put it in the bottom of the Aga!
They all survived and had at least reached late middle age the last I heard. OC
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