[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] St Petersburg records for twins, Quads; Familie Bregnet / Breguet

[Helen Gillespie]

I have read that the Dionne Quints - born near Corbeil, in northern Ontario were born in Ma 1934 - 2 months premature were apparently kept warm in a basket covered with heated blankets and placed near an open oven door.  Luckily a hospital sent two incubators.  They all survived but sadly they were "on display" almost their entire lives.  

 

Helen

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 From: Nancy Gertner <nancygertner at mac.com>
To: Margaret Loroff <marlo50 at bex.net> 
Cc: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org 
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 7:08:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] St Petersburg records for twins, Quads; Familie Bregnet / Breguet
 

Very interesting Margaret.

I notice the quads only have one name (no middle name), so I wonder if they were stillborn and named but never Christened?

I found a record for triplets once . . . I can't remember if they survived . . . probably not.

My mother-in-law told me about her twin cousins born in early 1900s in England.

They survived without incubators, and her story was they were put in - I think — shoe boxes with cotton wool and kept warm by the stove.

That was about the best technology available for preemies at the time I guess . . .

Nancy

On Jun 12, 2013, at 9:31 PM, Margaret Loroff wrote:

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> I don't know who will be reading this but I had to write to someone.  
> 
> I was reading the church records from St Pete's, I occasionally go thro them
> in hopes something new will pop out and give me hope.  This is something I
> found, they are not related to me,  I do not know anyone with this name.  
> 
> This is births listed.  The family name was spelled two different ways and
> it can easily be seen why.
> 
> Father Georg Bregnet or Breguet.   Mother Henriette Lillje.
> 
> Births:  Son-Peter Herman Breguet   born 3 December 1857  died 30 July1859
> Zitomir  
> 
>            Dau-Julie Wilhelmine Breguet  born 29 April 1859   Zitomir
> 
>            Son-Peter Wilhelm Breguet   born 10 August 1860
> 
>            Son-Georg Eduard Breguet     born 3 November 1863
> 
>            Dau-Henriette Wilhelmine     born 3 November 1863   died 25
> November 1863
> 
>            Dau-Amalia Bregnet   born 24 December 1865
> 
>            Dau-Elizabeth   born 24 December 1865  
> 
>            Dau-Julie   born 24 December 1865
> 
>            Dau-Wilhelmine   born24 December   Shitomir
> 
> I was totally fascinated with these births.  I did not find any death
> records for those 4 babies born on the same day.  Infact after that, the
> family disappeared from the records.  The birth of Quads
> 
> is unusual today, it must have been really astonishing in those days.  And
> that was after birth of twins.
> 
> As I said, this is not my family but it was very interesting.  I did find
> the name in Virginia, Delaware,Conneticut, Massachutts and Rhode Island in
> later years.
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