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Broadsheet describing the Biddenden Maids, Kent, England, 1801-1900 Elisa and Mary Chulkhurst (1100-1134) were conjoined twins named after their home town of Biddenden, in Kent, England. They lived for 34 years joined at the hips and shoulders, until one of the twins died. The other refused to be separated from her dead twin saying “As we came together we will go together” and died six hours later. The twins are said to have left land to the Church, the rental income from which was to be used to purchase food for the poor to be distributed on Easter Sunday. Cakes bearing the image of the twins were also to be distributed. Today, cakes are distributed to the elderly on Easter Monday. Medical Photographic Library |
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Short title | L0057045 Broadsheet describing the Biddenden Maids, Kent, Englan |
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Author | Wellcome Library, London |
Headline | L0057045 Broadsheet describing the Biddenden Maids, Kent, England |
Copyright holder | Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Image title | L0057045 Broadsheet describing the Biddenden Maids, Kent, England
Credit: Science Museum, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Broadsheet describing the Biddenden Maids, Kent, England, 1801-1900 Elisa and Mary Chulkhurst (1100-1134) were conjoined twins named after their home town of Biddenden, in Kent, England. They lived for 34 years joined at the hips and shoulders, until one of the twins died. The other refused to be separated from her dead twin saying “As we came together we will go together” and died six hours later. The twins are said to have left land to the Church, the rental income from which was to be used to purchase food for the poor to be distributed on Easter Sunday. Cakes bearing the image of the twins were also to be distributed. Today, cakes are distributed to the elderly on Easter Monday. 1801-1900 Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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