My Grandma was a twin. (This was her on her wedding day)
Her name was Nannie and her sister was Fanny. Imagine naming your baby that, in this day and age. Fraternal twins tend to run in families through the maternal line. It is caused by a multi-ovulation gene. Fraternal twins can be a boy/girl or 2 of one sex but they look like siblings rather than identical. They could look almost identical but that doesn’t make them true identical twins/ monozygotic - in other words, it took 2 fertilized eggs. Identical or monozygotic twining is one fertilized egg that splits into two or three...My triplet cousins - the boys were identical twins (one egg that split into two) and another egg joined the party so she was just a single. No fertility drugs were used. It was all natural and I was told she gave birth to all three vaginally! OUCH!
My Grandma's mother (Salle, my Great Grandmother) not only had twins but had twin siblings from their mother, my 2nd great-grandmother, Rebecca.
My 3rd great-grandmother, Martha had twins. 2 girls.
Now on my mom's side -
My Grandma Mabel's sister gave birth to boy/girl twins.
Fraternal twins.
Bobby and Margaret.
My 2nd Greatmother's mother, Elizabeth also had boy/girl twins.
Leonard and Margaret
My 3rd great-grandmother also had a set of girl twins. Olive and Mary Alice. I have their photo somewhere - they were older when their photo was taken.
My sister and I could have had twins - with 35+ cousins, 2 of my cousins had twins. The triplets and boy/boy twins. Don't know if any of my cousins have twin grandchildren. That would be interesting.
Do you have twins or multiples that run in your family?
I wouldn't have minded one bit if I had twins. I used to Nanny for a set of boy/girl twins. Max and Stella. They were so cute and fascinating to me.
I had twin best friends, growing up that were identical.
Famous Twins
Mary Kate and Ashley
Robin and Maurice Gibb from the Bee Gees
As far as the celebrities go - I didn't recognize any of them on the list I looked at - except for these two sets - I don't follow the celebrities of today. And of course, throughout history, there were Jacob and Esau from the Bible and Apollo and Artemis from Greek mythology.
I remember the movie Parent Trap where Hayley Mills played a twin.
Patty and Cathy
The Patty Duke show, where it was her cousin who was identical to her.
Well, that was fun.
I hope you enjoyed it. It started out with me wanting to explain the part of the twin and single birth = 3 born at the same time or being a triplet. Then the subject morphed into everything else.
Take Care,
Debby
Bobby & Magaret are adorable!! I guess multiple births are largely inherited! I loved Patty Duke and Hayley Mills. They were my teenage idols.
ReplyDeleteI liked them too!
DeleteHi Debby, you have a fertile family! No twins in my family. I loved watching the Patty Duk show. Tamar had twins from Judah and Perez was in the line of Jesus!
ReplyDeleteI remember Patty Duke was on one channel and Gidget was on another! I’d love to watch the reruns but haven’t found them.
DeleteI'm a twin. I have a twin brother. Twins seem to have run on my father's side of the family. His brother also had twins, a boy and girl. His cousin had twins, also a boy and girl. His cousin's son had identical twin girls. No twins in the next generation, though. Elaine (in Toronto)
ReplyDeleteHi Elaine - Cool that you are a twin.
ReplyDeleteWowzer..that's a whole lot of twins on your family tree. I went to high school with triplets but didn't know any other twins in real life.
ReplyDeleteFascinating.
Hope your day goes well. We're pretty wet here in the Sacramento area but we are safe and so happy that our power is back on again.
Sue
Hi Sue - So you're in Sacramento. I'm up in Redding. We've been wet but never lost power. Today is a cold but sunny day. Glad you're safe and dry. We did have some gusty winds the other day.
DeleteThere are twins in my family my father had a brother & sister who were or are twins I am unsure if my uncle Doug is still alive. My sister's ex-husband is a twin and they have a set of twins but no triplets in the family
ReplyDeleteThat is so cool. You just never know who is a twin.
DeleteNo twins in my family. I would have loved to have twins or been a twin myself!!
ReplyDeleteMe, too!
DeleteI loved The Parent Trap and The Patty Duke Show. Such lovely memories.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
I wish I could watch the reruns. I wonder if they are as good now, as I remember them?
DeleteThank you for the explanation of the "triplets". I guess you were answering my question! Thank you! WOW! You certainly did have a lot of twins in your ancestral line! I am not aware of any in either of my family trees. My husband's father's father was a twin. But thankfully we didn't have any twins...just three boys at separate times. The first two were 18 months apart, and it sometimes felt like having twins. They sure kept me busy. The third one was 4 years after the 2nd one, so I could relax a bit more with him, although the other two still kept me hopping. How do these great big families do it? Thank you for sharing so much of your genealogy with us. I enjoyed that immensely!!
ReplyDeleteYeah I thought I better try and explain.
DeleteI had 3 boys too but they were spaced 3 years apart so it was manageable.
I had to say that when I saw this, I chuckled as I just became a Grandmother to identical twin girls!! My husband's mother was a fraternal twin...Her twin sister had a set of fraternal twin ( a boy and a girl) great grandchildren, skipping 2 generations....And now if my MIL was still alive, she would also have a set of twin great grandchildren...My twin granddaughters have nothing to do with heredity though as my DIL's pregnancy resulted from IVF...They implanted one embryo that split into 2, creating identical twin girls!!! We are totally thrilled with them as I never expected to be a grandmother....My DIL is 41 years old and my son is 40....It took them 5 years of a few heartbreaking events to get to this point and we are ever so grateful to have these sweet babies in our lives!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing!
Hugs,
Deb
Debbie-Dabble Blog
Debbie, What a wonderful blessing! Congratulations on the twin baby girls.
DeleteIt sounds like twins run in the family as well even though your twin granddaughters were a result of the IVF process. How fun for you all.
Oh my, this was so fun. No twins in my family. My husband has twin aunts, they are 80 years old and are a hoot. I always tell them they should take their show on the road. They tease each other in such a fun way.
ReplyDeleteThis was fun, thank you for sharing.
Carla
As a mother of twins, I can tell you they come with twice the excitement and twice the pain. Your grandma was a very pretty girl. Thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteI can only imagine. What a blessing to have twins.
DeleteI enjoyed the lesson on twins. Your mom looked so young. The Bee Gees - on sure got better teeth - sorry. I loved the Parent Trap and Patty Duke. Loved the explanation of triplets. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteIt would be fun to watch the old reruns again.
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