Twins' Birth Records

[jocon]

I have twin ancestors - female, born 1831 in London. Would there be any reference to their twin relationship in parish or other birth records?

[bhg481]

I don't think so but I stand to be corrected.
I had a phone call yesterday from a cousin on my mother's side who is researching the family tree. He was trying to find details about my dad and had found 2 people with the same surname born on the same day; one was obviously dad but the other was a mystery to him until I told him that dad was a twin and his brother had not lived very long. There was clearly no mention of the fact that they were twins in the records he was looking at.
Dad was born in 1910, so things may have been different in 1831.

[Canary42]

I am a twin. There is no reference to the fact on my Birth Certificate.

[sherrardk]

I'm a twin and there's nothing special on my birth certificate but only own twins' birth certificates they have the time of their births (don't know if this a twin thing or it's regional or a newish thing).

[sherrardk]

On my ^

[Ann]

I have done some family history for friends. In the Parish records the entries are usually next to each other in the book with birth date recorded too.

[Ann]

Do you want to give me their names (don't - if you want to keep it confidential) but I could take a look as I subscribe to Ancestry.com

[Peter Pedant]

Canary

there should be a time of birth as the elder twin is elder and would inherit at common -law ( ie before the wills act 1837 )

Otherwise the time of birth is not recorded altho from my fathers diary I was born at 6 am

If the twins were christened on the same day - which they usually are - then the vicar might note - twins. One of my ancestors had the whole lot done as a job lot ( mega-bap) and I think the twins were recorded as such. The christening records were inspected at intervals by the Bishop's visitor

[jocon]

Many thanks for all interest and comments - what you say really confirms what I thought. I did wonder if parish records, usually handwritten, may have something more added, just to confirm that they were twins. Their dob is identical on other documents but I can't find them together, as it were, on birth records.
Ann - thanks for your offer - my local library computer service have a subscription to Ancestry and I'm able to take advantage of that so I'll keep plugging away and hope something turns up.

Thanks again.

[DJHawkes]

after the inroduction of civil registration in 1837 twins or multiple births can be spotted because they have the exact same registration reference. Before that the baptisms would have been on the same day and then possibly the birth date anotated by the vicar