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Hello All
This might sound like a really strange request, but I have come up against a difficulty. Any help would be sincerely recieved.
I am adopted, and I know what my birth name is. I have my birth certificate - however, I traced my biological family on here - but they aren't my biological family.
I knew it the minute that I saw photos. So I delved further. There is an entry of birth for me twice, under two different surnames. Now I ran my own childrens through the birth register and they are not registered twice. Just once as we were married.
Both of the registration numbers are the same under both names, and even the volume number is the same.
I recently had someone contact me from a completely different family, stating that they were my younger sister - I had an extremely unsual birth name -
Is it possible that I couldhave been registered under two different surnames - or is it possible that two babies were born in the same town, with the same first and second name? I am begining to think that I was a twin.
Please help me sort this conundrum.
Many thanks for reading this
Abby :-\

If we learn nothing else on here it is that strange things do happen. I'm not familiar with notations for registering twins births.

I suppose that the double registration is possible for sure prior to computerisation. Was your double registration in the same area? Is there a point to getting both certs and seeing who registered each of them.

I'm sorry that you have this conundrum. I hope that you get it answered.

xJ

I can see on the records the two entries with different surname that I think are you, next to the first there is a '1' or 'i' - and a ref number seems to have been hand written at the end.... I am not up on adoptions etc but sure someone will know what this might mean?

thank you all so much for your help - I will look for the 'notation' - I hadn't even seen it! But goodness you are god, because I didn't even give my birth name!
Thank you Jiminy Cricket - I know she did not marry, and is dead now. Just am stressing about this new family lead,
Thank you all for helping - atleast I now know what direction to go in. x

Hi sorry t bother you all again, but is it possible I really was a twin?

A slim possibilty but there are clues,,,

I have sent you a direct message,,see white envelope.

Thank you all for your words of direction x I know where to go now, thank you xx

Forgive me if this is incorrect, but I was led to believe that the BC for multiple births (twins, triplets etc) had the time of delivery on them; something to do with inheritance rights.

Of course, that may be incorrect, or came in on a certain date.

Sorry to hear of that JC.

If that has always been the case, if Zhanine has her original BC, if she were a twin, wouldn't the time of birth be recorded? We don't want to her to get even more confused ;-)

Scotlands B/C all carry a time of birth as does D/C.

England /W and NI time is noted on multi biths.

Zhanine is aware of this fact.

Phew - that's alright then :-)

I think it still has to be registered, my daughter had a stillborn a few years ago and he had to be registered as a birth and a death.

Hi Zhanine,

I am a twin ....and the time of birth on the certificate is a clue.

Also my dads cousin was registered in two surnames the mothers
(maiden name )was one because she was married to another man, and had an affair, My dad told me the biological father insisted on it being registered in his name. also.

I have these two certs and both have the same registration numbers.

Marilyn ....

Lets hope that if Zhanine does get the 2nd certificate, she comes back and tells us how it differs from hers.