Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst
- Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst
Mary Chulkhurst and Eliza Chulkhurst (1100 – 1134) (also known as the Biddenden Maids) are one of the earliest known set of conjoined twins. They were born in Biddenden, Kent, England.
The twins were joined at the hip, although illustrations also depict them joined at the shoulder.
They were said to have departured their entire estate to the church, though this has been cited as perhaps unreliable: "two maidens" left a piece of land of about 20 acres (81,000 m²) to the churchwardens of Biddenden, the rent from which was to provide a dole of bread and cheese (and sometimes beer and, today, also tea) to the poor (now the less well-off) of the village. The earliest documentary evidence of this charity comes from a court case of 1656 at which villagers gave evidence of their memories of the dole.
References
*Bondeson, J. (1992). [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1294728 The Biddenden Maids: a curious chapter in the history of conjoined twins] . "Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 85 (4)," 217–221. Retrieved July 1, 2007.
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