Conjoined Twins Cases: Abby & Brittany- Part 2

1. The Tocci twins, Giacomo and Giovanni:

The twins were born in Locana, Italy between 1875 and 1877 on either July 4 or October 4. They were delivered normally, and as they grew, they joined a freak-show and later on in their lives, they presumably married 2 different women and had children of their own.

2. Conjoined twins Millie and Christine McCoy

These twins were literally joined at the hip. They were born on July 11, 1851 and died on October 8, 1912. Their mother had already given birth to seven other children, which were perfectly normal. They twins were sold to a showman named Joseph Pearson Smith soon after birth, but they were soon kidnapped by a rival showman. Smith traveled to Britain to find the girls and reunited them with him their mother, Monimia. He and his wife provided the twins with an education and taught them to speak five languages, dance, play music, and sing. The twins were members of the great P.T. Barnum circus, and went under the name of “The Two-Headed Nightingale”

3. Rosa and Josefa Blazek

Rosa and Josefa Blazek were born on January 20, 1878 in the Czech Republic. Their parents were quite superstitious and believed that this is the work of the devil so they did not allow the infants to eat or drink water for eight days. The twins miraculously survived, and their parents understood that they did not deliver the spawn of the devil.

4. Daisy and Violet Hilton

Daisy Hilton and Violet Hilton were born on 5 February 1908 and died in January 1969. The two were also a pair of conjoined twins who toured in the United States sideshow and vaudeville circuit in the 1930s.