Twin record breakers
WERE my daughters Sarah and Siobhan the heaviest twin girls ever born in England, at a combined weight of 16lb 15oz?
I was 38 and had a 16-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter, so was shocked to find I was pregnant. I couldn’t believe it when the 12-week scan revealed I was expecting twins.
They are now 28, married, with successful careers and have brought us great joy.
MARY MCDONOGH, Darlington, Co. Durham. AS HAPPY as I am for the Evans family, I have to tell them their twin sons, at a combined 16lb 3oz, are not England’s heaviest twin boys (Mail).
In February 1936, my uncles Ted and George Wynne, born in North Kensington, london, were recorded as the heaviest twins born in the UK, with a combined weight of 18lb 1oz.
My mum, who was three at the time, is their big sister. The daily Mail published a lovely article about the boys — the sixth set of twins in their family.
Their mother, my nan, was the youngest of 17 children including four sets of twins, one of whom had twins, and her sisterin-law also had twins.
The boys were delivered at home by a midwife and their grandmother.
My mum and Ted still live in the UK, but George emigrated to australia as a ‘Ten Pound Pom’ and has lived in Perth for most of his adult life. DEBORAH WADDON, Teddington, Middlesex.