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OK my wife and her mother share the same birthday.

My sister in law and i share the same birthday. My name is Aled her husbands name is.....Aled

Two sides of the family who dont know each other very well, both have a Rhodri and a Gethyn Davies.

My son was born on the 12th of Sept,

My daughter was born on the last day of October.

My birthday is the 12th of October, my wifes birthday is the last day of Sept.

Take from that what you will????:)

Cheers

Aled

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Good friend of mine was trying for a baby for a good few years and then needed somewhere to stay. We let him stay at my recently departed Grans house where his misses soon became pregnant. His first son was born on my birthday and his second on my Grans birthday!

Divine intervention? That really is quite a coincidence. :good:

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I arrived on my Dad's birthday but more coincidental is that, when researching our family tree, we found an ancestor who share my son's name and his birthday (150 years apart).

 

My daughter and Adolf Hitler share a birthday which explains why Hitler thre such spectacular tantrums....

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My late mum was called May but when we were closing the deal on our little cottage 23yrs ago the lady selling the house told us she had called the house May cottage after her mum who had died just prior to her buying the house. Guess what my mum had just died! Spooky eh? This is Norfolk after all, a place of mystery and strange happenings.

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I was born the same day my dad was christened , he married on his birthday was told he had cancer on his birthday and dies two years later on his birthday, when my gran dies he had a black tie on the tie was MIC some one asked wot it stood for in his humour he said mam in coffin , the funeral car turned up with my dad in the reg number started with MIC man in coffin all true

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I arrived a day before my mums birthday but I guess that's not too unusual. But my mum is an identical twin and her sister's first son arrived on their birthday. I only managed nine o'clock the night before.

 

When my parents divorced the woman with whom my dad spent the following five years had exactly the same name as my mum (first, middle and surname, exact same spelling of a surname that can be spelled four different ways) and the woman he subsequently married (and is still married to) also shares the same first name, and they married on my mum's birthday.

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Different sort of coincidence. Many years ago we went on a day trip to Rhyl in North Wales with my Aunt. It was not a place we had ever been to before and held no family connections. It was about 100 miles away from my Aunt's house where we had been staying We parked in a car park by the seafront.

 

As we were unloading another car came and parked next to us. It was my Dad/Aunt's youngest brother and his wife who they hadn't really had any contact with for years. They lived about an equal distance away in the opposite direction. Huge surprise! Everyone was stunned. Even if they had parked in a different space or arrived a few minutes earlier or later we would have missed them.

 

Neither side had any idea that the other had planned to go. It was spooky but my aunt firmly believed it was an intervention from above

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Well seeing as divine intervention has cropped up a couple of times I'll tell you about one of the most strangest set of circumstances that I know of, it's not however a family coincidence

 

The wife's aunty had for many years promised to leave a gold sovereign on a gold chain to our niece, her intentions were well known within her circle of friends but the aunty had spent a good portion of her life at odds with her brother, my wife's uncle who resides in Canada.

On her untimely passing as the only close by family my wife and her sister were asked to sort out her belongings so that the council could free up her OAP bungalow, both knew of the aunts intension and as they packed her belongings kept an eye out for the sovereign, checking all the usual places and even all the pockets on items of clothing, but despite their best efforts no sovereign, a couple of pawn shop receipts were found so we guessed aunty had needed the money and cashed it in.

Uncle arrived a few days later and his attitude was kind of due to a lack of a will that he would take everything of value, at that he did, if we had have found the sovereign it would have gone, along with a MBE war medals and God knows what else.

 

Fast forward to 45 days after aunty had passed away, I'm in my yard, the burning bin is full, I empty it into the skip, the grate falls out into the skip as well, at first I said sod it but then decided the grate helps with burning bundles of paper or card I hooked the grate back out of the skip, the grate is in two halves and they come out together, something wrapped around both and on closer inspection it's a gold chain, with low and behold a gold sovereign !

How did it get there? What are the chances? In reverse order......

The lad that was supposed to be emptying the burning bin offered me £100 cash for it, I said no (despite being on the bones of me bum at the time).

At first I couldn't be bothered to hook the grate out, the skip was fresh and I had to look for something to hook it with.

Because the rags were wet they smouldered rather than burned when the fire was next lit, a hot fire could well have melted the gold, too wet a rag would have resulted in the rags not burning enough to release the chain to get stuck on the grate!

The gold had been in clothing in one of two bags that were on the top of a stack of bags for rag collection, the rag collectors were a customer of mine and binned two bags that were soaked into my fire and not the skip because the skip was full.

It rained, just the right amount of rain too.

The stack of bags was moved to my yard only after I'd paid the sis in law a visit, she had left the bags out for the bin men, if my visit had been half an hour later the bags would have been gone.

There was about 12-14 bags of rags.

The bags were originally destined for the tip but the back of my pickup was full with other junk so the bags went into the sis in laws car boot and back seats, she needed to be home early or would have followed me to the tip.

We could have found the chain, and the uncle could of taken it.

 

That evening after finding the chain I went to the sis in laws, sat at the table and waited until the niece was present, then stopped all the conversation with a rather loud statement something like "do you all know it's been 45 days since aunty passed away?" My wife looked at me like I was a freak, the conversations resumed and about a minute later I stood up and asked the neice to hold her hand out, once again the room fell silent, I reached into my pocket and without revealing what was in my hand held my hand out, the sis in law and my wife both looked shocked and welled up, I placed the chain and sovereign into my nieces hand, tears flowed.

 

Before anyone thinks this is being deceitful to the uncle, I'll say he had more than his share of luck recently, he's now a very wealthy man.

 

Multiple edits due to 'iPhone adjustments'

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