Scotlands People Archives - Geneageek https://geneageek.com/tag/scotlands-people/ Genealogy, genealogy, genealogy. Thu, 25 Nov 2021 15:57:16 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://geneageek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cropped-geneageekicon-150x150.png Scotlands People Archives - Geneageek https://geneageek.com/tag/scotlands-people/ 32 32 Twins https://geneageek.com/twins/ https://geneageek.com/twins/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:03:00 +0000 https://geneageek.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/twins/ At the end of my last post, I mentioned that I had no idea that Alexander Ritchie BUCHAN had a brother called John. I did a ‘parent search’ on familysearch.org for…

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]]> At the end of my last post, I mentioned that I had no idea that Alexander Ritchie BUCHAN had a brother called John.

I did a ‘parent search’ on familysearch.org for Alex’s parents, Charles and Jessie (nee RITCHIE) and up he popped! While checking the information, I noticed that his birth date was identical to brother William’s but perhaps this was confused with a christening date (children were sometimes baptised in ‘bunches’).

I managed to download the birth entry on Scotlands People and sure enough, John and William were twins!

Birth record of Charles & William BUCHAN, Peterhad 1868
Anyone else found twins in their families?  I think this was the first instance I’ve come across.

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