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I'm not sad, so please no thoughts with you comments and the like. I just find it amazing that he was born on the 18th of Aug 1935 and died on the 18th Aug. 9yrs ago today he passed away. Has anyone else ever discovered this in their family. Catherine xx

Wow that is unusual!! Hugs Diana xx

How strange that you should ask this. I was wondering the same thing. Just this minute I have been looking at my tree regarding a branch where I've just found 2 new contacts. My mother's cousin was born on New Years Day 1906 and died that day in 2001. Thinking of you as you remember, Catherine. Gwyn

Catherine my ggrandfather was born on christmas day and died on christmas day too. Juliexx

Catherine Something similar but not quite the same.... Found my adopted birth sister last year and we were shocked to find that both her adopted mum and her birth mother (my mum) both died on the same day and the same year....... Rosi

Catherine, my mum passed away on her mothers birth date. I only discovered this when doing my family tree. Also my Dad died on a Tuesday 29th and Mum died on a Tuesday 29th, 4 yrs later. My Dad passed away in 1994 yet I still miss him like crazy as his birthday was 4 days after mine. My rellos have a habit of dying on someone elses celebration. Dad on my dtr's birthday, Mum 2 days after my birthday and aunt on my wedding anniversary. I guess that's to make sure I don't forget them!

Catherine, sending you positive thought, Lilx

I was never very close to my dad, my mum and him had a very on/off relationship, they finally split when I was about 7. I never saw him again. Then out of the blue I got a phone call to say he was in hospital. I went to visit him, he didn't know who I was. I got chatting shown him a pic of his grandaughter and promised to visit him the following week, then I got another call to say he had died, it was the 18th of Aug, his birthday. i can't really grieve over someone I hardly knew, I remember snippets from the past, but not enough to warrant a full blown crying session. Hence my post I'm not sad. The only thing that did bother me was at his funeral, he remarried after my mum and she had grown up children, at the service the vickar said 'he leves behind his wife and her children' there was no mention of me, like I never existed. But I'm not bitter about it, that's just life and you get on with it. I suppose I am saddened for what might have been. catherine xx

My gran was born and married on the 8th Nov. When her dau (my mum) was going to get married she was going to have the same date so the celebration would get bigger! The registrar couldn't do that date, though............ Good job the registrar couldn't though, as a few years later my dad died......on the 8th Nov. So, after that we still celebrated gran's birthday - she never seemed to remember it was the anniversary of the death of her son-in-law! Mum suffered in silence...... Merry

my mum died on my sisters birthday - so that is hard to celebrate for her. The most unusual thing in my family - immediate that is - that within 6 months of someone dying a baby is born - it has happened like that for about 20 years now.

My ex m-i-l was born Dec 3 and died Dec 3.

You know that is so true Lorraine, bet this has happed to so many people someone dying and then a baby being born. My first child was born, then my mum died 2 days later, then a year after my dad died. With my son he was born then my husband's granfather passed away. catherine xx

Catherine - with all of my kids some one has died within the six months prior to them being born. When my dad died there was no one in the family pregnant so we thought that the pattern had stopped. Within weeks of him dying, my sister in law found out she was 5 months pregnant - so we now all look at each other at funerals just in case