| Mary And Eliza Chulkhurst |
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| 1100 births | |
| 1134 deaths | |
| conjoined twins | |
| people from biddenden | |
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Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst ( 1100 - 1134 ) (also known as the '''Biddenden Maids''') are the earliest known set of Conjoined Twins . They were joined at the hip, although illustrations also depict them joined at the shoulder. Mary and Eliza were born in 1100 in Biddenden, Kent , England and died in 1134 . The twins are said to have left 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 Churchwarden s 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. |
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