Recently, I was surfing the net and came across these incredile coincidences.
• English politician and justice of the peace Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey was found murdered on October 17th, 1678. His body had been left in a ditch on Greenberry Hill in London. Three men were arrested and tried for the crime. Their names were Robert Green, Henry Berry, and Lawrence Hill.
• On February 13th, 1746, a Frenchman, Jean Marie Dubarry, was executed for the murder of his father. Precisely 100 years later, on February 13th, 1846, another Frenchman, also named Jean Marie Dubarry, was executed – for the murder of his father.
• On December 5th, 1664, a boat sank while crossing the Menai Strait in the Irish Sea. Just one of the 81 passengers survived, a man named Hugh Williams. On December 5th, 1785, another boat sank in the same place. The only survivor was a man named Hugh Williams. On August 5th, 1820, 24 passengers in a stricken vessel drowned. One man was saved. His name was Hugh Williams.
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