Meet Sunderland's VE Day Victorias!

Sunderland Echo

These three Sunderland women from the same family were all born on VE Day!

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00:00When you say it, me birthday, oh, maybe if you're born the day the war finished, they will say it.

00:07It's funny to have three of you all on one day.

00:10I'm Carol Victoria Parker.

00:13I'm Victoria Little Mum.

00:15Melissa Victoria Simpson.

00:17My mum's got Victoria in her middle name because of VED.

00:20So that's why she's Carol Victoria.

00:22And all the day I was born, the doctor was in the house and it said,

00:28Oh, it's VED. Have you got a name?

00:31And she said, no.

00:32He says, oh, you must call her Victoria. It's VED.

00:35So I think that's how I got Victoria to start with.

00:39But does that end up your second name?

00:40It's my second name, Weller.

00:42Your middle name?

00:43They might add Carol Pete first.

00:46So then me auntie got Victoria when she was born the same day,

00:50the victory for Victoria day.

00:52And then when I was born on that day as well,

00:54I wasn't supposed to be called Melissa Victoria,

00:56but I had to keep up the tradition.

00:58My mum had to include Victoria in the name as well.

01:01It's always been like a big occasion.

01:04Like obviously all three of us born on the same day

01:06and then it'd been VED.

01:08I've always known like it was VED that day as well.

01:13Carol is believed to have been the first baby born in Sunderland on VED.

01:16I'm supposed to be.

01:18I've got no papers to say I am, you know,

01:21but I didn't in them days, I don't know.

01:2380 years ago, it wasn't known, you know.

01:26But I think I'm supposed to be the first baby.

01:28I was born at 25 past 12, just after midnight.

01:33I know my mum was standing at the door

01:35and she said everybody was going down to the town to party.

01:40My first daughter was born on my birthday

01:42and I didn't know, didn't have any name for her.

01:46And when my husband came into the hospital, he said

01:49she's going to get Victoria

01:52because she's born on your birthday.

01:55And then I popped along on the 8th of May as well.

01:57So I got Victoria as a middle name too.

01:59I couldn't believe it

02:00because she was a month early.

02:02A fourth member of the family came close to sharing the birthday.

02:06My other daughter,

02:07she was born eight days early

02:10so she would have been on my birthday.

02:12She was due the 8th of May.

02:14And if nothing else,

02:15there is always the guarantee of a party on their birthday.

02:18There's the only street parties you know I will have

02:20just sat outside.

02:23And that's it.

02:24The news always pays a visit as well.

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