Twins Betty Richards and Jenny Pelmore celebrate
reaching 100th birthday in January first 2008
Yong twins
New Year is for everyone to celebrate.However, the 2008 New Year is more expected to twin sisters Betty Richards and Jenny Pelmore, because the first of the New Year is their 100th birthday.
According to British media reported on December 31, 2007, the probability for twins to celebrate their 100th simultaneously is just one in a seven hundred million. It has milestone significance for the twins. The sisters presented their own life experiences and way of life to the journalists in December 31.
It is reported that the twin sisters were born in January 1st, 1908 in Manchester, United Kingdom. They seldom separated from each other since the birth, and now they have been living in Cornwall of England, and were less than 1 km away from each other's home.
It is understood that their grandfather John Kim was a blacksmith, who moved from Cheshire to Cornwall in order to find a job in 1890. Since then, the family had moved to Beckham County in south of London.Then they come up with the First World War, during that time, the elder sister Betty has served as Secretary of the Government, and her sister was a kindergarten teacher.
For the First World War, elder sister Betty is still clearly remember the scene at that time, she recalled: "I can still remember clearly, when I saw the two smaller aircraft flew over from the sky, I Shouted loudly. Because of fear, I was hiding under the table of the kitchen immediately. "
Betty was married with Bratton Richard in 1936, they had two children; Betty is now a grandmother of two children and great-grandmother of another two children. Her husband Bratton died in 1991.
Younger sister Jenny Pelmore met a Royal Air Force pilot Hugh Richard in 1941 during the Second World War. They got married after 6 years in 1947, because Richard took part in the fighting against Japan in India. Richard is also a twin, but the old man died in the 7 years ago, they had no child. |
