It is impossible for a woman to have twins 48 days apart in 1827. Isn’t it?
I turned to my fellow researchers at the FamilySearch.org Users Facebook page. There were many modern examples, but I couldn’t imagine a woman in 1827 having twins so far apart without medical intervention.
The first thought is there was a couple with the same names having children around the same time in the same place. Nope.
Then one researcher mentioned uterus didephys. It is a one-in-a-million occurrence that a woman has two wombs and gets pregnant in both of them at about the same time.
So yes, it was possible, but I expect most individuals looking at my research are going to think “two sets of parents” or “the record was wrong.” I’m going to have to address the question in advance.
On FamilySearch, I put an alert note on the entries for both children. In Ancestry, I’ll put comments in the Description section of the birth and I should probably also do that in FamilySearch and any other programs I use to record my findings.
And if you’re a FamilySearch user, you know anyone can come along and change your entries so I’ll follow these two boys.
Once again it is an example of how important it is to cite your sources, and also how sometimes we need to explain our findings as we correlate information because it isn’t obvious from the documents.