Re: Twins called Wednesday and Thursday

"Roy Stockdill" <roy.stockdill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:mailman.338.1208895447.22021.genbrit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Doing one of my periodic trawlings through FreeBMD for weird and
wonderful names, I chanced upon twin girls called WEDNESDAY and
THURSDAY GARRATT who were born in the Bakewell, Derbyshire,
registration district in the Dec quarter of 1861. They were clearly twins,
since they appear on the same page - vol 7b 537 - but Thursday is listed
first in the indexes, coming alphabetically before Wednesday. I can only
imagine they were so called because one was born just before midnight
on a Wednesday and the second twin after midnight on the Thursday.

How do I know they were girls? Because I followed them through the
censuses and subsequent marriages. Wednesday and Thursday were
the daughters of Joseph Garratt, a lead miner at Youlgreave, Derbyshire,
and his wife Julia. In 1871 both were with their parents, aged 9, and in
1881 both girls were working away from home as domestic servants on
farms.

Thursday Garratt married at Bakewell RD in 1882 to Enos Yates Wragg
and Wednesday Garratt married Thomas Webster, also at Bakewell in
1884. Wednesday Webster is then found at Prestwich, Lancs, in 1891,
and Thursday Wragg was still at Youlgreave, Derbys. Both are also on
the 1901 census, each with four children, but neither seems to have
replicated twins and both gave their offspring ordinary names!

I wonder if these twins were unique in their names or has anyone come
across a similar example - or perhaps even a better one?

--
Roy Stockdill
Professional genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer
Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:
www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html
I cannot offer a better example but I can offer a recent administrative
nonsense arising from twin born before/after midnight. One local authority
insisted that the older twin could come to school one year but the other had
to wait until the following year because they were born either side of the
cut-off dates. Words fail me!

Chris


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